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Jesse Brown, from Winter Park in Florida, twisted his ankle and scratched his leg, which spiraled into a deadly flesh-eating infection after he contracted Strep A.
The focus of the outbreak has understandably been on the young, but it can affect all ages
On December 8, 2022, brave little one-year-old Ryan Lines contracted the deadly strep A infection and has been in hospital for 62 days.
Cases of the killer bug have doubled across the Western Australia in the past three months while NSW, Victoria and Queensland have also reported recent spikes.
Schoolboy Mohammad Izaan Danish, eight, was allegedly sent from home from hospital twice before later dying of Strep A. Mohammad was first taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary on December 10.