Past year saw cases running at 4.5 times normal rate as outbreak continued beyond traditional winter months Thirty people have died, including 12 children, in an “unusual upsurge” of invasive strep A disease over the past year, according to a new report. The number of invasive Group A Streptococcus (iGAS) cases has been running at … Continue reading ‘Unusual upsurge’ of invasive strep A resulted in 30 deaths, including 12 children