A child has died in Northern Ireland from Strep-A infection.
According to reports the little girl was 5 years old and attended a Belfast primary school.
UK Health authorities are preparing to administer antibiotics to entire year groups in schools after nine confirmed deaths among school students.
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Epidemiologist, Professor Paul Hunter, is urging parents to keep an eye out for the symptoms.
'If you get this early enough, it's treatable.
Group A streps are really sensitive to penicillins, and they do respond very well to early treatment.
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The problem of course is that most children with a sore throat , early on it's viral, and antibiotics in that context can actually make matters worse.'
