Heartbroken father Robert McCorkindale, took his 9-year-old daughter Stella-Lily to A&E three times before she was admitted to an intensive care unit where she died from Strep A.
Symptoms include pain when swallowing, fever, and red and swollen tonsils – sometimes with white patches or streaks of pus.
Signs of necrotising fasciitis include fever , severe pain and swelling, and redness at the wound site. ‘So from me and Stella-Lily, thanks all of you for all you kind prayers and thoughts and feelings we felt everyone, words can’t express our gratitude.’supports HTML5 video He reiterated there is no evidence to suggest there has been a change to the circulating strains of Strep A to make them more severe, following the deaths of at least nine children across the UK.
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