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WellSpan Pediatric Medicine Physicians across the Midstate are seeing strep throat, stomach bugs and mild colds with a cough and congestion. This week, the providers of UPMC Children’s Community ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - This winter there have been a lot of illnesses going around, whether it be RSV, COVID the flu or strep. An at-home strep test is being studied in clinical trials and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) -This winter cases of strep have spiked among kids and spread rapidly in households and schools. The traditional way of confirming a case has been the dreaded swab, which ...

If you've ever woken up feeling down in the dumps with a slight tickle in your throat, you know strep throat may come to mind as a culprit. Although we’ve left winter behind, the public is still ...

A recent explosion in strep infections, many of which are presenting with few or atypical symptoms, is concerning experts around the U.S. Strep throat — caused by the bacteria Group A streptococcus ...

A spike in strep cases in North Carolina resulted in a child’s death and another being hospitalized in Mecklenburg County. Both children had an infection from the group A strep (GAS) bacteria that ...

"My sore throats, you know, are always worse than anybody's." So declares Mary to Anne in "Persuasion," Jane Austen's 1817 book. Most of us can relate to this feeling. There is no such thing as "just ...

Beginning Wednesday, January 29, Shannon will open a flu, strep and COVID swab drive-thru clinic at Shannon Clinic North, 2626 N. Bryant Blvd.

August will be here before we know it, and with August comes back-to-school season, fall sports teams beginning to practice and, just maybe, a reprieve from the hot summer temperatures! The changing ...

Shannon has opened a drive-thru flu, strep and COVID swab clinic until further notice in San Angelo. The clinic started on Wednesday, Jan. 29 at Shannon Clinic North, 2626 N. Bryant. The clinic will ...