BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 12:10:00
——thank you very much, david wallace—lockhart. health officials are urging parents to look out for the symptoms of scarlet fever, after six children in england and wales died from the bacteria that causes it. infections are normally mild and treated with antibiotics and while still uncommon, there has been an increase in group a strep cases this year, particularly in children under 10. many of us carry group a strep in our noses and often it's completely asymptomatic and some people get tonsillitis and then some, especially children, progress to scarlet fever, which is a more systemic in...