Page 19 - Strep A News Today

Stella-Lily McCorkindale was a P2 pupil at Black Mountain Primary School and died last week from an illness linked to the Strep A bacterial infection.

Balloons were released into the sky as a large crowd gathered in Belfast for the funeral of a five-year girl who died after contracting Strep A. Several mourner...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UKs watchdog, is investigating the price of antibiotics. Pharmacists claim they are being charged up to £19 for drugs.

Five times more prescriptions for penicillin are being dished out compared with three weeks ago amid the strep A outbreak, experts have said.

A spike in cases several fold-higher than pre-pandemic levels have been logged in France and the UK, while Spain and Sweden have also reported rises, the World Health Organization said.

Pharmacies have run out of stock and wholesale prices have surged after the deaths of at least 16 children. The Department of Health denied there was a shortage

STEVE BARCLAY: With money tight and over seven million people on hospital waiting lists, the road to recovery for our NHS was always going to be tough.

Beth Foreman sent on a fruitless search of overnight pharmacies for penicillin after being told Lincoln County Hospital had no stock

Betsy Curtis, from Northumberland, who has Downs syndrome, was prescribed the drugs last Wednesday after suffering tell-tale signs of the bacterial infection for a week.

EXCLUSIVE: Officials have blamed Covid restrictions for interrupting the spread of Strep A bacteria and viruses, leaving more children susceptible to catching it and becoming poorly.