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Another 300-400,000 people a year die from rheumatic heart disease, a chronic condition caused by damage from strep infection.
—Dylan Matthews, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
Right now, in addition to COVID-19, Harbor Health offices are seeing a lot of strep as well as other non-COVID respiratory viruses.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 28 Aug. 2024
Hawkins noted that Crain had strep and a urinary tract infection, wrote up a prescription and discharged her.
—Lizzie Presser and Kavitha Surana, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
Scratching chickenpox blisters can allow bacteria like staph or strep to enter the skin.
—Brandi Jones, Msn-Ed, Health, 18 Oct. 2024
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First Known Use
1927, in the meaning defined above
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“Strep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strep. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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