Hove secondary school pupil dies with suspected strep A

A secondary schoolhouse pupil has died with suspected strep A successful East Sussex, officials person said.

The kid attended Hove Park School successful Hove, a associated connection from the UK Health Security Agency and Brighton & Hove City Council said.

Sixteen UK children are present understood to person present died aft invasive strep A infections since September.

Most strep A infections are mild, but much terrible invasive cases - portion inactive uncommon - are rising.

Public wellness officials successful Brighton and Hove said they were moving with the schoolhouse to rise consciousness among parents astir the signs of strep A infections and what to bash if a kid develops them.

Dr Rachael Hornigold, advisor successful wellness extortion astatine UKHSA South East, said: "We are highly saddened to perceive astir the decease of a young child, and our thoughts are with their family, friends and the section community."

Alistair Hill, manager of Public Health astatine Brighton & Hove City Council, said: "We are moving with the UK Health Security Agency and Hove Park School pursuing the decease of a pupil who attended the school.

"We connection our heartfelt condolences to the family, friends, and the full schoolhouse assemblage who volition each beryllium profoundly affected by the precise tragic nonaccomplishment of this young child, and we are providing our enactment to them astatine this incredibly bittersweet time."

Normally, mild strep A infections origin symptoms similar a sore pharynx oregon tegument infections.

The bug tin besides origin scarlet fever - with a sore throat, tegument rash that feels similar sandpaper, a precocious somesthesia and a alleged "strawberry tongue".

It is treated with antibiotics which whitethorn besides assistance trim the hazard of complications and dispersed of the bug.