Pharyngitis

Japanese health authorities have issued a warning as the nation grapples with a significant uptick in potentially fatal strep throat infections, particularly in Tokyo. Cases have surged to approximately three times higher than last year's figures, prompting concerns among medical experts, Reuters reported.

A plant researcher in India saw a doctor for a sore throat and learned he had a fungal infection growing in his throat

Some 94 cases of streptococcus bacterial infection have been detected in the past 14 months, 23 of which resulted in death, among them 11 children under the age of 10, data from the National Organisation for Public Health (EODY) showed on Thursday.

Medical experts are expressing concern over indications that there has been an upsurge of streptococcal infections in children. The disease may not be systematically recorded in Greece, but pediatricians estimate that they have seen more cases this year compared to the pre-pandemic period.

A 54-year-old woman from Neamt county is the 50 person to have tested positive for the novel coronavirus infection, the Strategic Communication Group (GCS) informed on Thursday. The woman was admitted at the hospital in Roman on 11 March with cough, fever, pharyngitis. On March 1, she returned from Italy, from an unaffected area.