The Health Secretary has confirmed the government are in 'close contact' with medical suppliers over the outbreak of Strep A.
A five-year-old girl has become the latest child to die with the infection - taking the total deaths from the infection to nine since September.
It comes after the deaths of Muhammad Ibrahim Ali, 4, in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and Hanna Roap, 7, in Penarth, Wales. A 12-year-old student from Lewisham, London has also died, their school confirmed, while a six-year-old died in Ashford, Surrey in late November.
