Six young children have died in the UK after contracting Strep A infection.
Health officials confirmed that a youngster from St John's School in Ealing, west London, had died from the bacterial infection, while the parents of a four-year-old boy from Buckinghamshire said he had died from Strep A. It comes after a pupil from Victoria primary school in Penarth, four miles south of Cardiff, also died, taking the known UK total to six deaths since September.
Last week, a six-year-old died after an outbreak of the same infection at a school in Surrey. Health officials are understood to have seen a slight rise in cases of Strep A, which can cause scarlet fever, though deaths and serious complications from the infection are rare.
