Symptoms of TSS could develop quickly, and you need urgent treatment, states the National Institute of Health (NIH).

KERRY Joanne Wilkins was a “healthy” 35-year-old but died from liver failure – just three days after she first started showing symptoms. Her sister Jessica Matilda Wilkins, 31, ...

The risk of contracting a potentially life-threatening invasive group A strep infection has increased. Here is what you ...

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

Most group A strep infections cause mild illnesses like strep throat — but when that bacteria spreads to the blood and deep ...

Reports of children with the unusual inflammatory syndrome related to COVID-19 have been increasing nationwide. Here's what you need to know. Toxic shock syndrome is a rare infection that's most ...

Most if not all cases of Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS) that have been well-documented to date were associated with the non-SS2 group A streptococcus (GAS). However, a recent large ...

Cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, or STSS ... He notes there are instances in which symptoms develop rapidly after getting bruised. Such symptoms include swelling of body parts and ...

But his symptoms got worse ... leading to scarlet fever, toxic shock syndrome, and organ failure. They call it a medical storm, one that nearly took his life. “Elliott is kind of on the recovery ...