Antibiotics for Strep A could be given in schools after deaths of eight children

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Antibiotics for Strep A could be given in schools after deaths of eight children
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Antibiotics could be given in schools in certain cases a minister said

File photo dated 27/11/19 of school children during class at a primary school, as preventative antibiotics could be given to children at schools affected by Strep A infections, the schools minister has confirmed.Mr Gibb told GB News: “Lord Markham said in the House of Lords yesterday that the UK Health and Security Agency are monitoring the position and are considering those kind of issues in those schools where there is an infection.

It comes after the deaths of at least eight children from invasive Strep A infection since September., professor of paediatrics at the University of Bristol, told Times Radio that people are right to be worried and “it’s an enormous tragedy for these families”.

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