Health bosses have insisted there is no new strain outbreak of Strep A in the UK - despite six young children now having died of the bacterial infection.
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.
Two other English children under 10, whose names, ages and locations have not been made public, also died within seven days of being diagnosed, although the dates of their deaths are currently unknown.
