GRANDPARENTS are more at risk of dying from Strep A than their grandkids, a minister has warned. Maria Caulfield, speaking in the House of Commons on Monday, said that “the vast majority” of those …
While assuring MPs, Maria said there was "no shortage of antibiotics to deal with strep A" but there had been "pressure on supplies".
The health minister said the UK was currently seeing "five to six times" the normal amount of antibiotics being prescribed at the moment. She added: "We are monitoring this on a daily basis and can I just reassure people that while these are higher-than-usual incidences for this time of year, overall for this season we are not yet at the 2017-2018 levels when we had a significantly higher number of deaths.”What are the symptoms of invasive group A Strep?A fever The invasive version of the disease happens when the bacteria break through the body's immune defences.
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