A 32-year-long surveillance study led by Sinai Health in Toronto has found that serious infections caused by group A ...

A coroner determined that 16-year-old Sara Manitoski died of toxic shock syndrome, related to her use of a tampon Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything from ...

A surveillance study of 10 US states shows the incidence of invasive group A Streptococcus (GAS) infection more than doubled ...

Invasive group A strep infections in the US have more than doubled in a decade with rising antibiotic resistance and deadly complications prompting urgent calls for vaccine development ...

CDC research reveals life-threatening strep infections have more than doubled since 2013, with vulnerable populations facing ...

New research links multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children with COVID-19 to Epstein-Barr virus reactivation, revealing ...

Aimee Haller Follis hardly knew anything about toxic shock syndrome before she nearly lost her life to the disease Maria Pasquini is the staff editor for human interest’s digital vertical at PEOPLE.

First, antibodies (i.e., secretory IgA) in the mucosa neutralize S. aureus toxic exoproteins before they damage host epithelial cells, which protects the integrity of mucosal barrier. Secondly ...

Nearly all of the children in the study -- 94% -- experienced a drop in consciousness, 95% had dangerously low blood sugar, ...