A “BEAUTIFUL” toddler would have lived longer if she’d been given antibiotics sooner, an inquest has heard. Ava Hodgkinson was just two years old when she contracted strep A.

Medically reviewed by Kate Colby, MPH Strep throat (medically known as streptococcal pharyngitis) is an infection that ...

Most often, group A strep is passed through respiratory droplets since the bacteria often lives in the nose and mouth. That means ... 1 in 10 adults and 3 in 10 children with a sore throat ...

Families shouldn’t have to wait 14 hours for care, especially when young children are involved,’ mother tells health minister ...

Know someone with a stomach bug this holiday season? They're not alone -- cases of norovirus are surging in parts of the United States this winter, according to data from to the Centers for Disease ...

it is most common in children ages 5 to 15. You can get strep throat when someone with the infection coughs or sneezes around you. These airborne droplets can linger in the air, causing them to land ...

a type of bacteria also known to cause strep throat. According to Health Canada, scarlet fever often appears as a rash accompanied by a high fever and a strawberry-like appearance on the tongue.

foot and mouth, as well as several forms of enterovirus. This pain, similar to strep, can be unrelenting. Sometimes it is a very sharp pain in the throat, and in younger children, this pain can ...

None of this was remotely in character, or based on any dialogue in the script, and nothing needed to be said because, again, there was no sound — Mr. Baldoni was caressing Mr. Lively with his mouth ...

a Paediatric Infectious Diseases physician and researcher at Murdoch Children's Research Institute. "Scarlet fever these days is essentially a child, occasionally adults, with a sore throat or skin ...

Balascio was growing up, she had suspicions that her dad was up to something nefarious. One day, she called a cold case hotline and changed her life forever ...