Breaking news! Doctors BAFFLED after fully vaccinated kids start dropping dead from "lethal form of strep A"

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The seven kids with oddball symptoms arrived at Children's Mercy Kansas City Hospital in Missouri in quick succession this past month. One complained of an eye that was "stuck." Another had a lump behind one ear. A third had trouble swallowing, and then began drooling.

There was no reason to think these and four other cases, all in children younger than 10, might be related, recalled Angela Myers, the director of infectious diseases. But when the lab tests came back, they all pointed to the same culprit.



It was a lethal form of strep A.

"We were very surprised," Myers said. "We just don't see this many together in such a short time."

Infection with Streptococcus pyogenes - or group A strep, for short - typically produces mild symptoms, such as rash, fever or swollen tonsils leading to the eponymous strep throat. But in recent months, cases related to a rare invasive form of the common bacteria have been popping up across the United States, as well as Europe, often in connection with sometimes confusing symptoms, including skin rashes, fever, a racing heart and unexplained swelling.

The first confirmed pediatric deaths in this country, in two young children in the Denver area, were reported last week. At least 16 children have died of it in the United Kingdom, seven in the Netherlands and two in France.



Unlike SARS-CoV-2, strep A is something humans have battled for centuries.

It has variously been described, incorrectly, throughout history as being associated with phenomena such as comets and eclipses, or the introduction of nonliving matter into humans. It wasn't until 1874 that Austrian surgeon Theodor Billroth described an organism he saw under a microscope that appeared to be grouped in chains of four or more that would later be classified as bacteria. Bacteria can live in or out of a patient's body, unlike viruses, which are a collection of molecules that can only replicate in a host. Both are transmitted in similar ways - through air, water, food and living things.