"As with other airborne [illnesses], strep is highly contagious," says Louis Morledge, MD, an internist at Northwell Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. In addition to throat pain, strep can ...

The first thing to understand is that strep throat isn't a virus the way many other seasonal ailments are but is instead a contagious bacterial infection. It causes inflammation and discomfort by ...

“The main risk is something called rheumatic fever, where the disease can actually get into the bloodstream and infect like ...

The first thing to understand is that strep throat isn't a virus the way many other seasonal ailments are but is instead a contagious bacterial infection. It causes inflammation and discomfort by ...