Devi Sridhar is right when she says strep A is a treatable infection if identified and managed early on with the use of antibiotics (Strep A is circulating in the UK – and so are myths about what’s causing that, 6 December). The increased media coverage can only help raise awareness of this terrible condition among the public and the medical profession, hopefully preventing more deaths.
In March 2020, my three-year-old granddaughter’s strep A infection sadly wasn’t identified, despite her visiting her GP surgery and A&E on five occasions before the sixth and final visit by ambulance to her local hospital. The postmortem identified an invasive strep A infection that had caused sepsis.
