Health officials remind parents to be vigilant for signs and symptoms after a series of deaths.
"We're just numb at the moment we don't know what to do," said Hanna's fatheron the weekend - more than double that of the same period last year - amid concern about strep A symptoms.
There have been 15 confirmed deaths of children with strep A since September, including Hanna Roap, aged seven, from Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan."traumatised" and "devastated"Dr Gjini, a consultant in communicable disease control, said: "While we understand that parents are likely to be worried, cases of invasive group A streptococcal infection remain rare in Wales, and children have a very low risk of contracting the disease.
Visit👉 https://phw.nhs.wales/strep-a 👈for ℹ️ on Strep A, Scarlet Fever and iGAS, including how to spot the symptoms.
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