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Riya Hirani was discharged from Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow with a piece of paper advising her to use over-the-counter painkillers, despite pleas from her parents.

Annaliese Louise came home from school with "the sniffles" and died a day later with a serious strep A infection which turned into sepsis, leaving her family devastated

After running COVID-19 and RSV tests which came back negative, hospital advised the family she was suffering from a viral infection and sent her home.

When NSW father Justin Sutton took his step-daughter Cathy, five, to the doctors he was told she had a cold and would make a full recovery. Just a few days later she would be pronounced brain dead.

Australian father Justin Sutton took his step-daughter Cassie to the doctors after he grew concerned that she lost her voice, but after being sent away she then died a couple of days later

Strep A affects around 750 million individuals worldwide and kills 500,000 people each year.

The number of children admitted to hospital with strep A rose from 23 in 2020 to 107 in 2022, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute found.

A mum whose daughter died unexpectedly after coming home from school with 'the sniffles' has shared her grief and feelings of 'failure' as a parent in the hope of warning others

Annaliese died of sepsis after getting Strep A, but doctors believed she just had a cold.

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES. Beth Budgen, 46, is learning to adapt to walking with prosthetic legs and believes she has been given a second shot at life to help support other sepsis survivors