Girl, 12, becomes UK’s 16th Strep A death this winter

Girl, 12, becomes UK’s 16th Strep A death this winter

A 12-year-old girl today became the sixteenth victim of Britain’s spiralling Strep A outbreak. The unidentified pupil, from Sussex, is thought to have died from an exceptionally rare complication triggered by the usually-harmless bacterial infection. Local media reported the student was a girl who was treated at the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital in Brighton after […]