A 12-year-old child, who was a pupil at Colfe's School in Lee, London, has died from Strep A bacterial infection.Of the six deaths since September, five were under-fives in England.Reports say there are eight cases in Scotland, but no deaths. It is not known whether there are any ongoing cases in Wales and Northern Ireland.
Her father, Dean Burns, from Liverpool, told the BBC's Today programme: "She is still fighting for her life. She is really poorly, it is just devastating to us as a family. We can't believe this has happened."It progressed to something called invasive group A Strep, which has now gone into her bloodstream and has devastated her body.
"We are back to normal social mixing and the patterns of diseases that we are seeing at the moment are out of sync with the normal seasons, as people mix back to normal and move around and pass infections on."Strep A can cause a range of illnesses. Most cases are mild - a sore throat or a skin infection that can be easily treated with antibiotics.
Why? Why are our children dying from a Strep infection that should be easy to treat with antibiotics. All that running around protecting adults from COVID19 with vaccines and we can't protect our own children. Shameful country.
Winter19 is coming!