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Approximately 30 percent of American women have Group B strep. Of the 4 million babies born each year, about one in 500 are infected with Group B strep...
...fatal about 10 percent of the time, and nearly 50 percent of Group B strep infants suffer long-term damage ranging from seizures to mental retardation as a result of the infection...
...made even more deadly by loading them with radioactive iodine and other toxins. Infused into a patient's bloodstream by the millions, they become biological torpedoes that home in on clusters of malignant cells, blasting them with killer rays. Almost overnight, it seemed, cancer could become as curable as strep throat...
...some reason, the people at UHS couldn't put it all together, that I had mono, even though my friends all told me I did," Harkavy says. "The nurse practitioners kept thinking I had strep throat. I told [them] I did not have strep. I had a million strep tests, but [they] didn't give me mono tests...
Rosenthal says testing for strep throat is actually the proper first step, as nearly one out of three mono sufferers also have strep throat...