An investigation is being carried out into the death of a child in Ireland to see if it is linked to the Strep A bacterial infection.
Dr Eamonn O’Moore, Director for National Health Protection at the HSE and the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, confirmed that Strep A could be linked to the four-year-old child’s death.
“As far as we understand it at this time, we have been receiving reports of a death in a four-year-old, and as far as we understand it among a number of other conditions that are being considered as contributory factors, there may be a consideration of that invasive Group A streptococcal infection.”
The child who died was from the northeast of the country, Dr O’Moore said.
