The Hawaiʻi Department of Health and Hawaiʻi District Health Office are working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate a report of high rates of a serious bacterial ...

The Hawaii Department of Health says it is investigating high rates of strep infection in West Hawaii over the past few months. DOH said a local physician identified a higher-than-expected number of ...

Department of Health officials said the overall risk to the public remains low, but early treatment is important.

Streptococcal infections are any kind of infection caused by the streptococcal, or “strep,” type of bacteria. Also called streptococci, these bacteria are divided into group A, group B, group C, and ...

Medically reviewed by Lauren Schlanger, MD Key Takeaways Strep throat is caused by Group A Streptococcus bacteria and is ...

Summary statistics are from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Active Bacterial Core Surveillance reports 1-3 except for data on pregnant persons (from Phares et al. 4). Group B ...

Can you have strep throat without the symptoms? Do you need treatment? Here’s what you need to know. Strep throat commonly occurs with symptoms like a sore throat, fever, difficulty swallowing, and ...

Researchers at BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus develop experimental vaccine against Streptococcus pneumoniae, offering hope for ...

Researchers have found a further reason for the severity of dual infection by influenza and Streptococcus pneumonia -- a new virulence mechanism for a surface protein on the pneumonia-causing bacteria ...

On 26 February 2019, an Idaho couple shared a cautionary tale on Facebook that had garnered over one million shares by the time of this reporting. The post detailed a strange mark on their son’s face ...