Dean Burns, whose daughter, Camila Rose, is being treated in hospital, urges parents to look out for symptoms
- Q&A: what are the symptoms and how can strep A be treated?
The father of a four-year-old girl who is in critical care with strep A has said he is “praying for a miracle” and urged other parents to look out for symptoms.
The UK Health Security Agency has said cases of the most serious kind of infection, called invasive group A strep (iGAS), are unusually high for this time of year, and believe the increase in cases may be linked to more social mixing after the ending of Covid restrictions.
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