Leanne Passey News Today

Experts said a chickenpox vaccine rollout in the UK would make the contagious infection a problem of the past. Here, MailOnline sets out all you need to know.

Reign Passey, now five, spent three weeks in hospital and had to undergo a lifesaving four-hour operation to remove the flesh-eating bacteria that left her with a huge scar on her right side

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A 4-year-old girl is lucky to be alive after a weeks-long battle with a flesh-eating bacteria. UK native Leanne Passey is opening up about her young

A little girl was left fighting for her life after developing strep A.

A mother's instincts saved her 4-year-old child's life. Luckily, she trusted her gut and rushed her child to a different hospital.

Reign Passey, 4, from Dudley in the West Midlands was forced to undergo a four hour operation to clear out tissue infected with flesh-eating bacteria after catching Strep A.