Testing for strep A: Don't wait
A New Brunswick widow is urging Canadians with symptoms of Strep A to get tested or go to the hospital so that other families don’t have to deal with a loss like hers did.
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A New Brunswick widow is urging Canadians with symptoms of Strep A to get tested or go to the hospital so that other families don’t have to deal with a loss like hers did.
One month into 2024, New Brunswick is already halfway to last year's total number of deaths from severe Group A strep infections, according to the province's acting chief medical officer of health.
A family in N.B. is urging people to get tested for Group A strep, after their father and husband was one of those who died suddenly from the bacterial infection.
Zach Wetmore returned to the Moncton Market to serve sausages like his father did before he died on Jan. 19.
Kim Wetmore is urging people to go to the hospital or get a test if you've got symptoms of strep A. She doesn't want people to have to go through the same pain she is going through now.Her husband, Dan Wetmore, died of strep A in Moncton, N.B., on Jan. 19 at the age of 49. He had been sick for more than a week."By him putting it off and putting it off and putting it off, it ended his life," said Wetmore. Canada is seeing a record number of cases of invasive Group A strep, a bacterial infection t