Ginny and Jeffery Killam were both treated at the Yarmouth Regional Hospital.
Two women in the Yarmouth area are questioning the response by Nova Scotia Health after they say invasive group A strep infections left them in hospital fighting flesh-eating disease. The episode raises questions about Public Health messaging in the age of social media, according to one expert.Two women in the Yarmouth area are questioning the response by Public Health after they say invasive group A strep infections left them in hospital fighting flesh-eating disease.
Doucet said she needed surgery to treat flesh-eating disease as a result of the Strep A infection. And while the Yarmouth hospital team was excellent, she said, Public Health's response has been a disappointment.Her grandson, who had stayed with Doucet in the days prior to her illness, was treated with a preventive antibiotic by Public Health, she said.
"After seven hours, I left. I couldn't sit anymore," said Dillon, who returned to the hospital two days later, at which point she received surgery. Public health messages about COVID-19 were well received by most in Nova Scotia during the pandemic, he said, but health officials can always do better by ensuring messages are inclusive and understandable.
"There's nothing to suggest that there's any increased concern around invasive group A strep in the Yarmouth area then there is anywhere in the rest of Nova Scotia," Strang said.
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