How does strep throat spread?

Thru the Air: Strep is a contagious disease and spreads thru close respiratory contacts.Avoidance and good handwashing may help minimize the spread.

See below: Most commonly it spreads to neck lymph nodes. It can however spread to adjacent soft tissues in the neck and rarely into the blood stream.

Secretions: Your cough or sneeze can launch the germ into the air and you saliva carries it to anywhere your contaminated fingers touch. Frequent hand washing and covering your cough/sneeze help diminish the spread. Direct person to person exposure can also do the deed. You are considered contagious until you have been on antibiotics for at least 24 hrs.