The father of a four-year-old girl on a ventilator with Strep A has said the infection is "the worst thing that can happen to anyone".
Camila Rose Burns was well and spent last Friday playing and dancing with friends before being struck down over the weekend and ended up fighting for her life by Monday.
The little girl is receiving treatment at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital where doctors told her desperate family she is currently the "poorliest girl in the whole of England".