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Several children without identified risk factors have been hospitalized after contracting an invasive group A strep infection.

Strep A Infection: Health officials in the U.K. are warning parents to be alert after a recent spread of severe Strep A infections resulted in the deaths of at least seven children. The Health Security Agency issued a rare health warning on Friday urging parents to monitor their children for the symptoms of the illness.

Control, because of resistant bacteria. its growing because were overprescribing antibiotics. what should we do about this? somebody comes to see me, i might want to check a streptest if they have been around strep. but i probably dont want to just give them antibiotics and say your throat is a little red. i want to check a rapid strep test if i have a suspicion, but those can be false negatives. you could have strep, and that could be negative, so a throat culture could be a better idea. a thro...

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