The seven kids with oddball symptoms arrived at Children's Mercy Kansas City Hospital in Missouri in quick succession this past month. One complained of an eye that was 'stuck.' Another had a lump behind one ear. A third had trouble swallowing, and then began drooling. There was no reason to think these and four other cases, all in children younger than 10, might be related, recalled Angela Myers, the director of infectious diseases. But when the lab tests came back, they all pointed to the same
The seven kids with oddball symptoms arrived at Children's Mercy Kansas City Hospital in Missouri in quick succession this past month. One complained of an eye that was "stuck." Another had a lump behind one ear. A third had trouble swallowing, and then began drooling.
The first confirmed pediatric deaths in this country, in two young children in the Denver area, were reported last week. At least 16 children have died of it in the United Kingdom, seven in the Netherlands and two in France. "It could be we have altered patterns of immunity due to the pandemic that may have increased our vulnerability. But it could also be . . . different variants" of strep, he said. "It could be a combination of factors. No one knows."Unlike SARS-CoV-2, strep A is something humans have battled for centuries.
But in a small number of cases, strep A can turn dangerous when it invades parts of the body where bacteria don't normally exist. When it goes into such areas, including the blood, cerebrospinal fluid, bone marrow and organs such as the brain and heart, it can spread quickly and kill. Serious illness in children has also been reported in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, Ireland and Sweden, but the patterns aren't always the same. In the U.K., doctors reported a surge in scarlet fever - which is also caused by strep A bacteria - at around the same time as the invasive cases. But that wasn't seen in the Netherlands.
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