Conceptual animation of a man with a sore throat.

Doctor and child, Throat CU, Tongue depressor, Researcher in Lab coat with pitri dish

00:00:00:15 suppose you go to a doctor for a strep throat, and he or she prescribes an antibiotic. some time after you get the prescription and maybe even after you've taken the first pill, your fever ...

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10:00 P.M.

DENVER, COLORADO FEED BACKGROUND MATERIAL FOR A CS ON THE BIOSTAR STREP THROAT TEST. 15:34:24 INTV CLIPS W/ 6 YEAR OLD STREP THROAT PATIENT LISA HESTERBURG, PHYSICIAN STEPHEN FRIES AND BIOSTAR SPOKESMAN DOCTOR ROBIN NORRIS. VS OF FRIES EXAMINING LISA. CLIPS OF A MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNICIAN SMEARING THROAT CULTURE SAMPLES ONTO PETRI DISHES. CLIPS OF ANOTHER TECHNICIAN DROPPING THROAT CULTURE SAMPLES ONTO A BIOSTAR DISK. TIGHT SHOTS OF BIOSTAR DISKS DISPLAYING POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE TEST RESULTS. MS OF FRIES TAKING A THROAT CULTURE SAMPLE FROM LISA. 15:45:15 BLANK. CI: HEALTH: EXAMINATION. HEALTH: STREP THROAT. SCIENCE: RESEARCH.

Conceptual animation of a man with a sore throat.

A NEW STREP TEST CAN BE DONE WHILE PATIENTS WAIT IN ABOUT TEN MINUTES.

DENVER, COLORADO FEED BACKGROUND MATERIAL FOR A CS ON THE BIOSTAR STREP THROAT TEST. 15:34:24 INTV CLIPS W/ 6 YEAR OLD STREP THROAT PATIENT LISA HESTERBURG, PHYSICIAN STEPHEN FRIES AND BIOSTAR SPOKESMAN DOCTOR ROBIN NORRIS. VS OF FRIES EXAMINING LISA. CLIPS OF A MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNICIAN SMEARING THROAT CULTURE SAMPLES ONTO PETRI DISHES. CLIPS OF ANOTHER TECHNICIAN DROPPING THROAT CULTURE SAMPLES ONTO A BIOSTAR DISK. TIGHT SHOTS OF BIOSTAR DISKS DISPLAYING POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE TEST RESULTS. MS OF FRIES TAKING A THROAT CULTURE SAMPLE FROM LISA. 15:45:15 BLANK. CI: HEALTH: EXAMINATION. HEALTH: STREP THROAT. SCIENCE: RESEARCH.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 5:00 P.M.

A RARE, STREP VIRUS IS ON THE RISE IN AT LEAST SIX STATES AND HAS BEEN BLAMED FOR 11 DENVER AREA DEATHS. HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ARE WORKING QUICKLY TO FIND OUT WHO ELSE IS AT RISK. ANOTHER 29 CASES HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN DENVER IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS. THE FATALITY RATE IS ABOUT 25 PERCENT. INVESTIGATIONS ARE UNDER WAY IN PARTS OF COLORADO, ALABAMA, ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, MARYLAND AND OHIO WHERE SEVERE STREP CLUSTERS HAVE BEEN REPORTED. THE OUTBREAK HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH “COMMON” STREP THROAT AND IS RELATED ONLY BY THE TYPE OF BACTERIA...

DENVER, COLORADO FEED BACKGROUND MATERIAL FOR A CS ON THE BIOSTAR STREP THROAT TEST. 15:34:24 INTV CLIPS W/ 6 YEAR OLD STREP THROAT PATIENT LISA HESTERBURG, PHYSICIAN STEPHEN FRIES AND BIOSTAR SPOKESMAN DOCTOR ROBIN NORRIS. VS OF FRIES EXAMINING LISA. CLIPS OF A MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNICIAN SMEARING THROAT CULTURE SAMPLES ONTO PETRI DISHES. CLIPS OF ANOTHER TECHNICIAN DROPPING THROAT CULTURE SAMPLES ONTO A BIOSTAR DISK. TIGHT SHOTS OF BIOSTAR DISKS DISPLAYING POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE TEST RESULTS. MS OF FRIES TAKING A THROAT CULTURE SAMPLE FROM LISA. 15:45:15 BLANK. CI: HEALTH: EXAMINATION. HEALTH: STREP THROAT. SCIENCE: RESEARCH.

Conceptual animation of a man with a sore throat.

Conceptual animation of a man with a sore throat.

LONDON FEED COVERAGE FOR A JON SCHRIBER AMERICAN AGENDA CS VO ABOUT INVASIVE STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTIONS WHICH IN THEIR MOST VIRULENT FORM ARE LINKED TO FLESH EATING BACTERIA. 12:14:17 NATURAL SOUND INT FTG IN LABORATORY. MCU HANDS HOLDING PETRI DISH UNDER BRIGHT LAMP. 12:14:21 CU VIRUS CULTURE IN PETRI DISH. 12:14:24 STILL COLOR PHOTOGRAPH OF SCARRED ARM OF VICTIM SUFFERING FROM A STREP INFECTION. 12:14:26 DISSOLVE TO TWO ORDERLIES WHEELING A PATIENT DOWN A HOSPITAL CORRIDOR. 12:14:31 PULL OUT FROM CU TO WS UNIDENTIFIED HOSPITAL. 12:14:39 GRAPHICS. 12:14:51 PUSH IN FROM MS TO CU SEVERELY SCARRED MID SECTION OF STEVEN SMITH, A YOUNG MAN RECOVERING FROM A RAPIDLY SPREADING STREP INFECTION. 12:14:58 MS DOCTOR ENTERING LABORATORY. 12:15:03 INTV W/ DOCTOR IN GERMAN (NO TRANSLATION). 12:15:14 CU ANOTHER SAMPLE OF STREP BACTERIA IN PETRI DISH. 12:15:17 STILL COLOR PHOTOGRAPH OF PATIENT W/ SCAR ON LEFT HIP. 12:15:22 CONTINUATION OF INTV W/ DOCTOR IN GERMAN (NO TRANSLATION). 12:15:33 VS TECHNICIAN TAKING SWAB OF STREP CULTURE IN PETRI DISH W/ METAL PROBE, TECHNICIANS WORKING W/ STREP CULTURE IN LAB, GERMAN DOCTOR READING A MEDICAL JOURNAL. 12:15:51 ECU STREP CULTURE IN PETRI DISH. 12:15:58 STILL COLOR PHOTOGRAPH OF OPEN SORE RUNNING THE LENGTH OF THE ARM OF ANOTHER STRICKEN W/ A STREP INFECTION. 12:16:17 EXT FTG IN GLOUCESTER, ENGLAND. WS CLINIC. 12:16:30 MWS PEOPLE ENTERING CLINIC. 12:17:45 CU NAMES OF CLINIC DOCTORS ON CHART HANGING IN WINDOW. 12:18:06 MS THROUGH WINDOW PATIENTS SITTING IN WAITING ROOM. 12:18:22 MOS INTVS W/ WOMEN RELUCTANT TO DISCUSS THE DEATH OF A SEEMINGLY HEALTHY NEIGHBOR FROM A STREP INFECTION. 12:20:03 INTV W/ ANOTHER NEIGHBOR, KAREN HARNETT, WHO EXPRESSES SHOCK AT HER NEIGHBOR'S QUICK DEMISE FROM A STREP INFECTION. 12:21:29 WS DECEASED NEIGHBOR'S MODEST RED BRICK HOME W/ WELL MAINTAINED LAWN AND GARDEN. 12:21:47 PAN ACROSS QUIET SUBURBAN STREET TO NEIGHBOR'S HOME. 12:22:06 MS WALKWAY LEADING TO HOME'S ENTRANCE. 12:22:45 MWS TWO YOUNGSTERS WALKING PAST HOUSE. 12:22:53 WS TALL SCAFFOLDING IN FRONT OF BUILDING UNDERGOING RENOVATION. 12:23:10 MWS SIGN OUTSIDE THE ROYAL HAMPSHIRE COUNTY HOSPITAL W/ HOSPITAL BUILDING IN BG. 12:23:19 WS VEHICLES DRIVING PAST HOSPITAL. 12:23:26 PAN ACROSS HOSPITAL UNDERGOING MASSIVE RENOVATION. 12:23:53 PULL OUT FROM CU TO WS HOSPITAL UNDER RENOVATION. 12:24:05 INT FTG. MS STEVEN SMITH LOWERING HIS TROUSERS AND LIFTING HIS SHIRT REVEALING EXTENT OF DEEP SCARS AND MISSING FLESH FROM HIS MID SECTION AS A RESULT OF A STREP INFECTION. 12:24:11 PUSH INTO CU NASTY WIDE SWATH OF SCABS AND WOUNDS TATTOOING STEVEN'S ENTIRE MID SECTION. 12:24:18 INTV W/ STEVEN ABOUT THE EXCRUCIATING PAIN HE FELT FROM HIS INFECTION. 12:24:32 EXT FTG. MWS SIGN READING THE ROYAL WEST SUSSEX TRUST ST RICHARD'S HOSPITAL IN FG W/ HOSPITAL BUILDING IN BG. 12:24:48 MWS WOMAN CROSSING STREET TO ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL. 12:24:52 GRAPHICS. 12:25:07 ECU SAMPLE OF STREP INFECTION ISOLATED IN PETRI DISH. 12:25:14 WS MODERN HOSPITAL BUILDING. 12:25:20 SOUNDBITE W/ UNIDENTIFIED DOCTOR ABOUT PANIC STRIKING FRIENDS AND RELATIVES OF STREP VICTIMS. 12:25:31 CU TECHNICIAN BRUSHING METAL PROBE OVER SAMPLE OF STREP CULTURE ISOLATED IN PETRI DISH. 12:26:14 MORE FTG IN GLOUCESTER. INTV W/ YOUNG MAN NAMED PETER, WHOSE WIFE, PAMELA, WAS STRICKEN W/ A RAPIDLY SPREADING FATAL STREP INFECTION. 12:29:39 INT W/ SISTER IN LAW, MARIANNE, ABOUT PAMELA'S DRASTIC ILLNESS. 12:31:05 STILL COLOR PHOTOS OF PETER AND PAMELA ON THEIR WEDDING DAY. 12:33:50 EXT FTG. LOW ANGLE WS PETER W/ HIS OLDER SON AND TODDLER DAUGHTER IN HIS BACKYARD. 12:34:07 MS PETER SITTING HIS DAUGHTER IN A PLASTIC SLIDE AS HER BROTHER WATCHES. 12:34:32 MCU BEHIND LITTLE GIRL SLIDING DOWN HER SLIDE. 12:34:42 LOW ANGLE MS BOY ROCKING ON PLASTIC ROCKING TOY. 12:34:56 SIDE MWS BOY ROCKING IN FG AS GIRL CLIMBS UP AND DOWN SLIDE AGAIN IN BG. 12:35:17 TILT DOWN FROM SMILING PETER TO HIS SON ROCKING. 12:35:27 CU GIRL CLIMBING UP AND DOWN SLIDE. 12:35:52 PAN FROM PETER WATCHING TO HIS DAUGHTER PLAYING ON SLIDE. 12:36:13 MS BOY CONTINUING TO ROCK. 12:36:22 WS KIDS PLAYING AS PETER WATCHES. 12:37:03 WS LARGE ORNATE HOSPITAL. 12:37:16 INT FTG. MS DOCTOR EXAMINING YOUNG MAN W/ SEVERELY SCARRED ABDOMEN. 12:37:25 CU DOCTOR'S HAND TOUCHING SKIN GRAFTS OVER SCARS COVERING CARVED OUT SECTION OF STEVEN SMITH'S ABDOMEN. 12:37:34 SOT W/ STEVEN ABOUT SURVIVING HIS STREP INFECTION. 12:37:43 MS BEHIND TECHNICIAN ENTERING STREP LAB. 12:37:48 MCU BEHIND ANOTHER TECHNICIAN EXAMINING STREP CULTURE IN A PETRI DISH. 12:37:52 ECU PETRI DISH. 12:37:57 VS TECHNICIANS WORKING IN LAB, RUNNING STEEL PROBE OVER SAMPLE OF STREP CULTURE. 12:38:05 OFF AIR BBC REPORT. 12:38:17 GRAPHICS. 12:38:53 VS THE GLOUCESTER PUBLIC HEALTH LABORATORY. 12:39:04 PAN ACROSS HOMES IN GLOUCESTER. 12:39:08 INT FTG. MS DOCTOR MAKING A HOUSE CALL EXAMINING A YOUNG WOMAN'S THROAT. 12:39:14 INTV W/ DOCTOR ABOUT PEOPLE BEING SENSIBLE AND NOT HAVING A PANIC REACTION TO THE NUMBER OF CASES OF STREP IN THE GLOUCESTER AREA. 12:39:23 STILL B&W ARCHIVE PHOTO OF BODIES OF STREP VICTIMS EARLIER IN THE CENTURY. 12:39:30 B&W FILM XFER. MCU DOCTOR EXAMINING CULTURE IN LAB. 12:39:36 PRESENT DAY INT FTG. MS LABORATORY TECHNICIAN SITTING AT DESK PILED HIGH W/ PETRI DISHES. 12:39:43 MCU PHYSICIAN TAKING SAMPLE FROM PETRI DISH. 12:39:46 GRAPHICS. 12:40:08 SOT W/ ANOTHER DOCTOR ABOUT CONCERNS ABOUT CHANGES IN THE STREP ORGANISM. 12:40:20 BBC SU. 12:40:43 ANOTHER CU GAPING WOUND COVERING STEVEN SMITH'S SEVERELY SCARRED ABDOMEN. 12:41:17 REWINDS. 12:41:26 MORE CU STEVEN SMITH'S MAMMOTH SCAR BEFORE HE TUCKS HIS SHIRT BACK INTO HIS PANTS. 12:42:02 BLANK. 12:42:08 REWINDS. 12:42:14 EXT FTG. MS STEVEN WALKING DOWN STREET W/ FEMALE COMPANION. 12:42:25 WS STEVEN ENTERING OFFICE BUILDING W/ HIS COMPANION AND ANOTHER MAN. 12:42:43 INTV W/ STEVEN SMITH ABOUT WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED WHEN HE WAS STRICKEN W/ A STREP INFECTION AFTER SUFFERING A FRACTURED PELVIS FROM AN ACCIDENT. 12:47:00 MS DOCTOR EXAMINING SKIN GRAFT OVER STEVEN'S ABDOMEN. 12:47:36 BLANK / REWINDS / SLATE TO END.

WHAT EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT COMMON STREP INFECTIONS TO PREVENT THEM FROM TURNING INTO SOMETHING WORSE THAN A SORE THROAT

WORLD NEWS TONIGHT EDIT MASTER 93-107 01:00 MCWETHY F-111 / F111 / F 111 07:00 MCWETHY / HOVELL - IRAQ 93/01/19 10:00 HUME - SCRATCH TRACK 93/02/01 10:00 HUME - CLINTON PRE ADDRESS 93/02/15 15:00 HUME - CLINTON DAY 93/02/25 MARTIN - B-ROLL 20:00 HUME - CLINTON PLAN 93/03/11 27:00 CRASH 93/03/17 25:00 JUDD - FINGERHUT 93/03/23 28:00 MCWETHY - BOTTOM 93/03/25 30:00 STRAIT - STREP THROAT TEST 93/03/29 32:00 GREGORY - RENTAL 34:00 STRAIT - WATER 36:00 HUME - STRATCH TRACK 37:00 AUG - GOP 93/04/29 42:00 ZELNICK / HOVELL - BOSNIA 93/05/04 45:00 HUME - BILL PLAN / FBI TRAVEL 93/05/24 48:00 ZELNICK - HILLARY HEALTH 50:00 WOOTEN - GUINIER NOMINATION 93/06/02 53:00 DOLE ON BREYER 54:00 JUDD - BUDGET 56:00 HUME - CLINTON NEWS CONFERENCE 93/06/17 59:00

Conceptual animation of a woman with a sore throat.

350 THROAT CULTURES WERE TAKEN TODAY A SCHOOL IN WANNAMINGO, MN., GRADES K-8. THE MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IS CONTINUING TO INVESTIGATE A STREP-A OUTBREAK THAT OCCURRED THERE TO FIND OUT HOW MANY KIDS ARE CARRIERS OF STREP-A BACTERIA. ONLY THOSE THAT HAVE OTHER SYMPTOMS WILL BE TREATED. THEY TOOK THE THROAT CULTURES AS PART OF A STUDY OF THE STREP-A VIRUS AND HOW IT IS SPREAD. THEY ALSO WENT TO WABASHA, MN, TO TAKE THROAT CULTURES AS A CONTROL GROUP. USUALLY ONLY 25 KIDS A YEAR DEVELOP THE STREP A BACTERIA.

WORLD NEWS TONIGHT EDIT MASTER 93-107 01:00 MCWETHY F-111 / F111 / F 111 07:00 MCWETHY / HOVELL - IRAQ 93/01/19 10:00 HUME - SCRATCH TRACK 93/02/01 10:00 HUME - CLINTON PRE ADDRESS 93/02/15 15:00 HUME - CLINTON DAY 93/02/25 MARTIN - B-ROLL 20:00 HUME - CLINTON PLAN 93/03/11 27:00 CRASH 93/03/17 25:00 JUDD - FINGERHUT 93/03/23 28:00 MCWETHY - BOTTOM 93/03/25 30:00 STRAIT - STREP THROAT TEST 93/03/29 32:00 GREGORY - RENTAL 34:00 STRAIT - WATER 36:00 HUME - STRATCH TRACK 37:00 AUG - GOP 93/04/29 42:00 ZELNICK / HOVELL - BOSNIA 93/05/04 45:00 HUME - BILL PLAN / FBI TRAVEL 93/05/24 48:00 ZELNICK - HILLARY HEALTH 50:00 WOOTEN - GUINIER NOMINATION 93/06/02 53:00 DOLE ON BREYER 54:00 JUDD - BUDGET 56:00 HUME - CLINTON NEWS CONFERENCE 93/06/17 59:00

Conceptual animation of a man with a sore throat.

WORLD NEWS TONIGHT EDIT MASTER 93-107 01:00 MCWETHY F-111 / F111 / F 111 07:00 MCWETHY / HOVELL - IRAQ 93/01/19 10:00 HUME - SCRATCH TRACK 93/02/01 10:00 HUME - CLINTON PRE ADDRESS 93/02/15 15:00 HUME - CLINTON DAY 93/02/25 MARTIN - B-ROLL 20:00 HUME - CLINTON PLAN 93/03/11 27:00 CRASH 93/03/17 25:00 JUDD - FINGERHUT 93/03/23 28:00 MCWETHY - BOTTOM 93/03/25 30:00 STRAIT - STREP THROAT TEST 93/03/29 32:00 GREGORY - RENTAL 34:00 STRAIT - WATER 36:00 HUME - STRATCH TRACK 37:00 AUG - GOP 93/04/29 42:00 ZELNICK / HOVELL - BOSNIA 93/05/04 45:00 HUME - BILL PLAN / FBI TRAVEL 93/05/24 48:00 ZELNICK - HILLARY HEALTH 50:00 WOOTEN - GUINIER NOMINATION 93/06/02 53:00 DOLE ON BREYER 54:00 JUDD - BUDGET 56:00 HUME - CLINTON NEWS CONFERENCE 93/06/17 59:00