{"id":693282,"date":"2022-12-02T14:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T14:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=693282"},"modified":"2022-12-02T14:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T14:02:18","slug":"third-primary-school-pupil-dies-to-strep-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/third-primary-school-pupil-dies-to-strep-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Primary School Pupil Dies to Strep A!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Strep A is currently the new virus that is out and about and infecting a lot of Primary School kids. There has been reports that a third child had died due to Strep A.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest death has been reported, the child died attended St John&#8217;s School in Ealing, west London!<\/p>\n<p>This came after an announcement happened of a child in Wales dying due to this virus. Alongside that, another child died a month before of the same virus.<\/p>\n<p>This virus is called group A streptococcal, GAS for short, an infection that can cause scarlet fever.<\/p>\n<p>The UKHSA has stated that they will provide advice for this and support for schools!<\/p>\n<h4>What is Strep A?<\/h4>\n<ul role=\"list\">\n<li>Group A streptococcal (GAS) infection is caused by strains of the streptococcus pyogenes bacterium<\/li>\n<li>The bacteria can live on hands or the throat for long enough to allow easy spread between people through sneezing, kissing and skin contact<\/li>\n<li>Most infections cause mild illnesses such as &#8220;strep throat&#8221;, scarlet fever or skin infections<\/li>\n<li>The bacteria rarely infects healthy people but if it does get into the body, causing serious and even life-threatening conditions it is known as invasive GAS (iGAS).<\/li>\n<li>Writing Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/\">BBC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more latest news, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>For everything Five Minutes Spare, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>For the Five Minutes Spare YouTube, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC4AiJQSc8lzf_b9VCWjSXLA\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Banner and Image Credit: <a class=\"mui-19sk0fy-a-underline-inherit-linkContainer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/g\/minervastudio\">Minerva Studio<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strep A is currently the new virus that is out and about and infecting a lot of Primary School kids. There has been reports that a third child had died due to Strep A. The latest death has been reported, the child died attended St John&#8217;s School in Ealing, west London! This came after an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":693302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693303,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693282\/revisions\/693303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}