pharyngitis

This is like saying someone wasn't washed out because of a persistent sore throat but was in fact diagnosed with chronic pharyngitis.

My celiac was misdiagnosed for pharyngitis for long, and since I've stopped taking any doctor very seriously.

A rapid antigen test as is available for streptococcal pharyngitis makes it straightforward.

For example, I'm having my sixth pharyngitis in less than a year.

> This is like saying someone wasn't washed out because of a persistent sore throat but was in fact diagnosed with chronic pharyngitis.

The main rationale for treating strep pharyngitis (aside from appeasing patients) is prevention of rheumatic fever, a rare but devastating heart condition that occurs as a sequelae of untreated strep throat.

Well, granting the analogy for the sake of argument, the problem here is the House report says that Snowden lied by saying he was diagnosed with chronic pharyngitis when he really had a sore throat.

Specifically, streptococcus bacteria such as Streptoccocus pyogenes, also called Group A Streptococcus, which is primarily responsible for rheumatic fever and scarlet fever in developing countries, and more commonly known in the West for causing strep throat (streptococcal pharyngitis).

Antiviral treatment was given to 5% of the persons overall, and 70 (13%) were hospitalized; the reasons for hospitalization were pain management, mostly for severe anorectal pain (21 persons); soft-tissue superinfection (18); pharyngitis limiting oral intake (5); eye lesions (2); acute kidney injury (2); myocarditis (2); and infection-control purposes (13).

"Pharyngitis" sounds scary, but it just means you have a sore throat.

When I go to the doctor, the doctor only thinks "pharyngitis -> Pills A and B -> here, take these pills".