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Fortune
Erin Prater

A Florida boy’s gym injury turned deadly due to strep A

Strep A is back on parents’ radar after an 11-year-old boy reportedly died of a bacterial infection after being injured at the gym.

Jesse Brown, a healthy fifth-grader in Winter Park, Fla., was using a treadmill at a gym when he rolled his ankle. The boy was healing but soon developed a red and purple rash on his leg, Good Morning America reported Feb 19.

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