Experts concerned as drug stores offer instant tests for strep throat
People with sore throats who are worried they could have strep infections can pay $15 for an on-the-spot test at Shopper’s Drug Mart pharmacies in B.C.
Just weeks after a 13-year old Vancouver Island girl died from an invasive streptococcus infection, Shopper’s Drug Mart has announced it is offering a rapid test to customers as a convenience and because hundreds of thousands of people don’t have a family doctor.
But physicians and other experts caution that pharmacists&nb
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