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Streptococcus

Bioscience-Medicine

Is immunity debt or immunity theft to blame for children's respiratory virus spike?

Bonnie Petrie

Group A strep has killed at least 24 children in England in the last four months. This has experts debating whether something has caused children to be more vulnerable to infectious diseases this fall, and if so, what?