Health chiefs have warned parents to look out for symptoms of Strep A - which has been linked to the deaths of six children in recent weeks.
A four-year-old girl is on a ventilator at a hospital in Liverpool after being infected with the winter bug, as experts say the number of cases is higher than previous peaks.
In the last week Muhammad Ibrahim Ali, four, from High Wycombe, Hanna Roap, seven, from Penarth, Wales, a six-year-old child from Ashford in Surrey and a primary-school aged child from north Ealing, London have all died with Strep A infection.
