Group A Streptococcus (GAS), bacteria that can cause infections like strep throat, scarlet fever and impetigo, is not present in the nasal influenza spray administered to children in Britain, ...
Does your child have strep throat, or is it just a common cold? It's challenging but important for parents to understand the differences in throat infections in kids. Pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, ...
A Dec. 5, 2022, Facebook post (direct link, archived link) shows a screenshot of a 2014 research study titled "Live attenuated influenza vaccine enhances colonization of Streptococcus pneumoniae and ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A scoring system can help determine whether a patient with a sore throat is likely to have GAS. The goal of the ...
A 2014 study which investigates the effects of a nasal flu vaccine on bacteria colonization in mice has been mischaracterized online, with some people claiming that it shows the vaccine causes ...
Strep throat is typically not considered dangerous, but it can be excruciating. By Dani Blum The list of potential culprits for a sore throat just seems to get longer — Covid-19, colds and now allergy ...
Several European countries have reported an early spike of group A strep infections, mostly among children, including cases of rare but deadly bacterial infections. There is no evidence the increase ...
UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics is seeing allergies and viral upper respiratory infections this week. Pediatricians at ...
NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with pediatrician Afif El-Hasan about a rise in strep A cases in children, age 5 to 15, and what symptoms look like. The CDC recently issued an advisory about a surge in ...
The U.K. government is warning parents to be on the lookout for symptoms of scarlet fever and invasive group A strep, an infection that’s killed six children in the country. Scarlet fever, government ...