Milk-Borne Septic Sore Throat and Scarlet Fever

Septic Sore Throat

The condition commonly known as septic throat or epidemic sore throat deserves special importance from the general practitioner as like no other common condition it is so frequentlymissed and even mis-diagnosed. This is particularly unfortunate because it is amenable to a simple and reliable form of therapy. Septic sore throat is an acute streptococcal infection with a fairly clear-cut clinical...

A Milk-borne Epidemic of Septic Sore Throat in Portland, Oregon *

The epidemic here reported, which includes 487 cases of septic sore throat, with twenty-two deaths, occurred almost exclusively among the customers of a single raw-milk dairy. All but one of the patients who died had drunk this milk. Prompt detection of the cause of the epidemic and equally prompt control of the milk supply by heating were made possible by complete cooperation between the clini...

A Boy With Fever And Sore Throat

A Boy With Fever And Sore Throat

Sore throat.

INTRODUCTION About 10-30% of people present to primary healthcare services with sore throat each year. The causative organisms of sore throat may be bacteria (most commonly Streptococcus) or viruses (typically rhinovirus), although it is difficult to distinguish bacterial from viral infections clinically. METHODS AND OUTCOMES We conducted a systematic review and aimed to answer the following ...