With brown hair and large round glasses, Elhana was 6 years old when a bacterial infection killed her in a few days, in December 2022. Her parents, who denounced delays in care, filed a complaint.
“They lived through a nightmare,” says their lawyer, Me Pierre Debuisson, of the Sana Juris law firm, specifying that the judicial investigation is still ongoing.
Elhana was a victim of Group A Strep (GAS), sometimes referred to as “flesh-eating”.
This bacteria was discreet during the first two years of Covid, then the number of serious cases almost quadrupled last year compared to pre-pandemic years.
The peak has since passed but we remain at fairly high levels, according to our information.
This pathogen is transmitted from human to human, via droplets or during close contact.
It most often causes mild infections such as angina or scarlet fever which are treated with antibiotics.
More rarely, it can lead to serious forms (toxic shock, severe pulmonary or dermal infection, meningitis, etc.).
The mortality rate is then very high, reaching up to 30%.
The most vulnerable people are babies, pregnant women or women who have just given birth, the elderly, such as those who are immunocompromised, etc.
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