A distraught family are desperately calling for information about the whereabouts of their much-loved brother and son who went missing almost a month ago before his car was found abandoned near Boddington.
A baby girl nearly lost her leg as a deadly flesh-eating bacteria devoured her limb after her parents thought she just had the flu.
Tania O Meara s daughter Eden was just 11-months-old when she was struck down with Strep A - an infectious bacteria that attacks and destroys flesh.
The Melbourne toddler had a series of colds and flus but her mum knew something more was wrong and took her to hospital.
She then spent the next 23 days in intensive care, undergoing four surgeries but thankfully was able to keep her leg. The problem with Strep A is it s often masked by your common flus and colds, Ms O Meara told Daily Mail Australia.
New model could help test vaccines against the deadly Strep A bacteria
Researchers have successfully developed a new Strep A human challenge model, paving the way to test vaccines against the common deadly bacteria that causes sore throats, scarlet fever and skin sores.
The collaborative research effort, led by the Murdoch Children s Research Institute (MCRI) and published in
The Lancet Microbe, found the model, which deliberately infected healthy adult volunteers with the bacteria in a controlled environment, was safe and would now be used to trial Strep A candidate vaccines.
Strep A infections affect about 750 million people and kill more than 500,000 globally every year - more than influenza, typhoid or whooping cough. Strep A can also cause severe life-threatening infections like toxic shock syndrome and flesh eating disease and post-infectious illnesses such as acute rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease and kidney disease.
Researchers have successfully developed a new Strep A human challenge model, paving the way to test vaccines against the common deadly bacteria that causes sore throats, scarlet fever and skin sores.
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Researchers have successfully developed a new Strep A human challenge model, paving the way to test vaccines against the common deadly bacteria that causes sore throats, scarlet fever and skin sores.
The collaborative research effort, led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and published in The Lancet Microbe, found the model, which deliberately infected healthy adult volunteers with the bacteria in a controlled environment, was safe and would now be used to trial Strep A candidate vaccines.
Strep A infections affect about 750 million people and kill more than 500,000 globally every year – more than influenza, typhoid or whooping cough. Strep A can also cause severe life-threatening infections like toxic shock syndrome and flesh eating disease and post-infectious illnesses such as acute rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease and kidney disease.