Children's Wisconsin has seen 9 cases of invasive group A strep so far in 2022. In 2021, they reported 4 cases and in 2020 they had 5.
There is growing concern around the rising number of invasive group A strep infections in kids, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention monitors cases across the country.
The U.K. has reported 15 deaths in children while Colorado has had 2.
"A kind of routine respiratory viral illness can very quickly become much more serious when a bacterial component jumps in. So people do need to be concerned about this," said Dr. James Conway, pediatric infectious disease physician at UW Health Kids in Madison.
Invasive group A strep can infect skin, soft tissue, or the bloodstream. The invasive infections kill 1,500 to 2,300 Americans each year, according to the CDC.
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