Children with sore throats shouldn’t attend school because they may have Strep A, official guidance suggested today.
Department for Education bosses also list headaches, which can be a sign of dozens of ailments, as a symptom of the usually-harmless bug.
Its advice comes as panic grows over Britain’s ongoing outbreak, with nine children dead due to Strep A already this winter.
Experts today urged parents to use their ‘common sense’ on whether their child is unwell, instead looking out for
Dr Stephen Griffin, an infectious disease expert at the University of Leeds, said face masks would have a ‘tremendous impact at decreasing transmission’
Children should wear face masks in classrooms in order to contain Strep A, according to an expert as the killer bug continues to sweep Britain.
Nine youngsters have already died of the usually-harmless infections this winter, with cases currently five times higher than pre-Covid among kids. Although the death toll is low, officials admit it is higher
Britain was today rocked by fears of another killer bug, with health chiefs preparing to issue a warning to parents over the symptoms of Strep A.
Four children have now died in less than a month from the usually-harmless bacterial infection, sparking concerns it may be spreading silently in schools. Muhammad Ibrahim Ali, four, today became the latest victim of the growing Strep A outbreak, which has already claimed the life of Hannah Roap, a seven-year-old girl from Wales. Her
Experts today slammed the US Government for failing to stock up on key flu drugs and antibiotics during the pandemic — despite warnings that a whirlwind of seasonal illness would return with a vengeance post-lockdown.
America is running out of five essential medicines, including the frontline child antibiotic amoxicillin and Tamiflu, as a wave of flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and other cold viruses overwhelm pediatric hospitals.
Covid lockdowns, mask mandates and the virus itself sidelined most seasonal infections for
The 2014 Ebola outbreak may have been borne out of an accidental lab leak at a US Government-funded facility, according to a bombshell analysis.
Virologist Dr Jonathan Latham — a former researcher at the University of Wisconsin — and journalist Sam Husseini say there are a number of inconsistencies in the official timeline of the West African epidemic.
They claim the virus likely emerged during ‘routine research activities’ from a laboratory in Kenema, Sierra Leone, which at the time was
The worst of Britain’s monkeypox crisis may be over as experts today hailed weeks of falling cases as ‘good news’.
Officials recorded an average of 10 new infections a day last week in the UK, down from 21 the week before.
Cases have been slowing since mid-July, with UK Health Security Agency officials confirming they were in decline in all regions as of August 15.
So far there have been just over 3,200 monkeypox cases in the UK, the vast
The next pandemic-causing virus may already be spreading in Britain — in the country’s chicken coups and duck ponds.
Some experts believe a human outbreak of avian flu is ‘on the horizon’ after record numbers of cases in wild birds and poultry in the past year.
There are increasing concerns that, as it spreads in animals, the virus could evolve to infect humans and cause a global crisis deadlier than Covid.
After all, that is what happened with so-called Spanish
England’s Covid resurgence may already be fizzling out, according to leading scientists who are hopeful that the uptick won’t descend into chaos.
Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests 1.3million people in England were infected during the week to June 18, up by a fifth compared to the previous estimate. Yet the week-on-week rise is half of the 40 per cent spike logged in last week’s projection.
Cases are also on the rise in Scotland, Wales and Northern
Polio’s source could be traced back to a single house or street, a minister claimed today amid fears the paralysis-causing virus is once again spreading in Britain.
Lord Kamall said ‘world-beating’ tactics learned during the Covid pandemic were being deployed to track down ‘patient zero’.
He revealed the investigation will see officials ‘go along the pipes’ to locate where the virus — not responsible for an outbreak in the UK since the mid-1980s — came from.
Positive samples were first
Fewer than half of teenagers in parts of England have been vaccinated against polio, official data suggests as health chiefs sound the alarm over a suspected outbreak of the disease that has been eradicated in Britain for decades.
Parents of unvaccinated children are to be contacted by the NHS as part of a targeted vaccine drive in London — where polio is thought to be spreading — amid fears the disease could take off for the first time in 40
