CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ashtabula County is experiencing a spike in cases of strep throat and scarlet fever from strep throat ...

UNLIKE certain other common diseases of childhood, rheumatic fever leaves no known immunity and seems to create an increased susceptibility to recurrent attacks. The effects of these recurrent ...

Strep A can also cause severe life-threatening infections like toxic shock syndrome, flesh eating disease and post-infectious illnesses such as acute rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease and ...

"For school-aged children with rheumatic fever, monthly intramuscular penicillin injections for around 10 years can be painful and traumatic if they have a fear of needles, and some people may ...