Pressure on GPs and hospitals due to the sheer scale of cases of the infectious disease has meant thousands have gone unreported
The UK Health Security Agency hadBut due to the sheer number of cases this season, public health teams have been slower to update the statistics. The surge will also have added to pressure on GPs and hospitals, with some delays in them reporting, although a source said the majority of cases recorded by doctors had been done so on time. Scarlet fever is a notifiable infectious disease, meaning all cases must be reported to public health officials.
The UKHSA said the undercounting would not affect data for invasive Strep A , which has been accurately recorded. IGAS has so farThe higher figures underline the huge strain being placed on GPs and chemists for antibiotics, which are used to treat scarlet fever. Health minister Maria Caulfield said on Monday that five to six times more antibiotics are being prescribed for Strep A than previous years, due to the scale of numbers.
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