Warning to families at Christmas as Strep A poses killer threat to grandparents

While assuring MPs, Maria said there was "no shortage of antibiotics to deal with strep A" but there had been "pressure on supplies".

The health minister said the UK was currently seeing "five to six times" the normal amount of antibiotics being prescribed at the moment. She added: "We are monitoring this on a daily basis and can I just reassure people that while these are higher-than-usual incidences for this time of year, overall for this season we are not yet at the 2017-2018 levels when we had a significantly higher number of deaths.”What are the symptoms of invasive group A Strep?A fever The invasive version of the disease happens when the bacteria break through the body's immune defences.

dontbuythesun ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern have already killed thousands of grandparents though...

I wish they can leave Grandparents alone, I knew one 90years old that is stronger than me, she walk faster than me, this guys are more healthy than most of the youths.

More Conservatives MPs that want to kill our Grandparents...what is it with these Tories...First Johnson and Hancock and now RishiSunak amd mariacaulfield...where is all these antibiotics that according to SteveBarclay was available...None in any chemist. GeneralElectionNow

Rubbish

Luckily mine are all dead

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