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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Maryam Zakir-Hussain and Thomas Kingsley

Strep A: At least 30 children in UK killed by bacterial infection since September

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At least 30 children have died in the UK from invasive strep A since 19 September, new figures reveal.

The UKHSA, in its weekly update on the bacterial infection, said there have been 33,836 notifications of scarlet fever in the last four months while a total of 122 people across all age groups have died of the condition in the same time period.

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