Causes Of Rheumatic Heart Disease Discovered
Monday, March 2, 2009 - 10:21
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have discovered the causes of rheumatic heart disease. Each year, around 15 million children fall ill with rheumatic heart disease worldwide; half a million of them die as a consequence. At the beginning of the medical cases of these children stands a simple throat infection with streptococcus -- spherical bacteria responsible for causing a range of different infections.