Public Health Wales and Powys Teaching Health Board are investigating links to Invasive Step A after the death of a child in Powys. They said that links between the death and a "very rare complication of Group A Streptococcal infection" is being looked into on Wednesday, December 14.
Dr Ardiana Gjini a consultant in Communicable Disease Control for Public Health Wales, said that people "identified for public health action have already been contacted" and those who have not been contacted do not need to take any specific action. The age of the child is not yet known.
The symptoms of the contagious infection include a fever, a sore throat and severe muscle aches. Some people can have the bacteria present in their body without feeling unwell or showing any symptoms of infections and while they can pass it on, the risk of spread is much greater when a person is unwell. The virus spreads through close contact.
