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Seven children killed by horror flesh eating bug
By Clodagh Sheehy ? 09 May 2014 03:30 PM
SEVEN children have died from a lethal flesh eating bug that has been spreading here over the past two years.
The terrifying disease is now killing in higher numbers than meningitis and more than half of the 66 children who contracted the infection had to be treated in hospital intensive care units, with 70pc needing surgery.
The invasive Group A Streptococcus infection (iGAS) hit three times as many girls as boys and 42pc of those infected were aged two years or younger.
In some cases the disease was so aggressive that doctors had "little time for effective intervention", a major European conference in Dublin has heard...
Seven children killed by horror flesh eating bug
By Clodagh Sheehy ? 09 May 2014 03:30 PM
SEVEN children have died from a lethal flesh eating bug that has been spreading here over the past two years.
The terrifying disease is now killing in higher numbers than meningitis and more than half of the 66 children who contracted the infection had to be treated in hospital intensive care units, with 70pc needing surgery.
The invasive Group A Streptococcus infection (iGAS) hit three times as many girls as boys and 42pc of those infected were aged two years or younger.
In some cases the disease was so aggressive that doctors had "little time for effective intervention", a major European conference in Dublin has heard...