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# StrepA kills >500,000 people a year via:
Invasive Strep A (e.g UK 2022)
and
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD).
RHD occurs where there’s:
+++ Strep A skin infections
+++ bacterial diversity
+++ poverty
Children the world over would benefit from a safe effective vaccine.
3/
Invasive Strep A (e.g UK 2022)
and
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD).
RHD occurs where there’s:
+++ Strep A skin infections
+++ bacterial diversity
+++ poverty
Children the world over would benefit from a safe effective vaccine.
3/
August 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
# StrepA kills >500,000 people a year via:
Invasive Strep A (e.g UK 2022)
and
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD).
RHD occurs where there’s:
+++ Strep A skin infections
+++ bacterial diversity
+++ poverty
Children the world over would benefit from a safe effective vaccine.
3/
Invasive Strep A (e.g UK 2022)
and
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD).
RHD occurs where there’s:
+++ Strep A skin infections
+++ bacterial diversity
+++ poverty
Children the world over would benefit from a safe effective vaccine.
3/
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Prof S Sriskandan finishes w/ sobering data from the '22 UK GAS outbreak probably driven by nonimmune unexposed birth cohorts and spread by aerosolised hydrophobic GAS. Rapidly fatal - Dx of GAS microbiologically conf. post mortem in 50% of peads deaths so window of opportunity very small
June 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Prof S Sriskandan finishes w/ sobering data from the '22 UK GAS outbreak probably driven by nonimmune unexposed birth cohorts and spread by aerosolised hydrophobic GAS. Rapidly fatal - Dx of GAS microbiologically conf. post mortem in 50% of peads deaths so window of opportunity very small