Health officials in the U.K. are warning parents to be alert after a recent spate of Strep A infections resulted in the deaths of at least six children.
"It is important that parents are on the lookout for symptoms and see a doctor as quickly as possible so that their child can be treated and we can stop the infection becoming serious," Dr Colin Brown, deputy director at UKHSA, said.
A further death of a 12-year-old schoolboy from London was reported Saturday, but has not yet been confirmed. In the week to November 20., there were 851 cases of scarlet fever reported in the U.K., compared to an average of 186 for the preceding years. " need to recognize that the measures that we've taken for the last couple of years to reduce Covid circulating will also reduce other infections circulating," Dr Susan Hopkins, UKHSA's chief medical adviser, told BBC Radio 4's Today program Monday.
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