BREAKING: Five young children have now died from Strep A, according to an update from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).
Six young children have now died from Strep A in the UK this season, according to health chiefs.hours after a fourth child was confirmed to have died from the bacterial infectionMuhammad Ibrahim Ali, aged just four, died at his home on November 14 after suffering a cardiac arrest, his devastated family said.
Necrotising fasciitis is also known as the ‘flesh-eating disease’ and can occur if a wound gets infected. Scarlet fever symptoms are often flu-like, including a high temperature, a sore throat and swollen neck glands.A white coating also appears on the tongue which peels, leaving the tongue red, swollen and covered in little bumps .
There have also been 1.1 cases per 100,000 children aged five to nine compared with the pre-pandemic average of 0.3 .
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