Strep A News

[behappy1736]

I'm worried after reading the news about the deaths of the children with Strep A recently.
I have health anxiety and anything like this triggers me. It's just awful and heartbreaking.
I just wanted to ask some thing so hopefully someone can help me understand please.
The media are not being very clear,
Are the deaths because of Strep A or have the children gone on to develop sepsis due to the infection resulting in their deaths?
Is this a new thing? Or has Strep A/Scarlet fever always been a thing?
And I can't find any stats on deaths related to it prior to the media jumping on this latest outbreak.
Any input welcome. Thank you 😊

The deaths are due to Strep A. Strep A/scarlet fever has always been a thing but it is usually treated successfully with antibiotics and the number of infections is usually around one quarter of the number we are seeing. Prior to antibiotics, scarlet fever was a leading cause of death in children.

I read yesterday there were four deaths of under 10’s in the same period in 2018.
i can’t remember where I read that, I’ll see if I can find it.

Not a new thing but higher rates.

The report i saw listed high amounts of circulation of the bacteria and social mixing as potential causes.

Interesting because I thought that the lack of social mixing due to lock downs and restrictions and hand sanitising had inadvertently affected immunity in children and that was having the side effect of increasing illness in children.

We solved one crises and brought on another by denying the exposure children need to keep their immune systems functioning well.