Increased number of bodies and not outbreaks of Streptococcus was found in the Kindergarten section, where the 5 -year -old who lost her life was attended by septic shock, which caused the germ, pointed out by both EDYY President and Health Professor Christos Hatzigeorgiou.

As part of the audits carried out by EROY, a total of 84 samples were carried out and 15 people positively resulted in the strep-test. In the kindergarten section of the dying baby girl, out of 10 children, 4 (including 5-year-old) were positive, that is, the percentage of the costume, usually about 10-15%, exceeded 30%.

Speaking to RES-EIA, Mr. Hadjichristodoulou said: “What came out with a strep-test are asymptomatic carriers. Asymptomatic carriers exist in the community anyway. In closed structures it is up to 10% and more. So they are not cases. There are one that died and there are three more, if I remember correctly, with symptoms. From then on we found other bodies in the department of the case and death and in a adjacent elementary school. What we found is that there was an increased stretchers in the very part we had death, “EDYY President Hadjichristodoulou told RES-EIA.

Answering the question “What danger does the stretcher pose?”, Mr. Hadjichristodoulou said: “We find stretchers all over the population, if we control. We are interested in the level of the costume. Stretching is not in danger. Chronic bodies may already have it for a long time and do not get sick. If they transmit it to someone else, however, it will get sick. Epidemiology is a little weird. “

In addition, EDYY CEO, Pathologist-Infectious Districtologist Dimitris Hatzigeorgiou, speaking to the RES-EIA radio station FM 104.9, said that of the 84 sampling of the audit were found in of him. The remaining 11 positives were children from a adjacent school, few parents, while no positive sample was found in the school staff.

“In the particular part of the lost kid, the positivity rate was relatively high compared to what we usually observe, which is usually 10-15%. In this case it came out more than 30%, because of the 10 children in the section of the 4, including the lost child, were positive. So it is a high percentage of streptococcus, which is compatible in some way and with the appearance of heavy cases. That is, it has been worldwide that when the percentage of the costume is increasing, we also have the appearance of heavy incidents, “Mr Hatzigeorgiou said.

At the same time, he said that there was no recommendation for the administration of chemoprophyosis to the positive incidents and added: “There is no chemoprophyosis in this case, as in the case of meningococcus. In Streptococcus we have nothing to do, as there is no issue of vaccine. Nowhere in the world is there a vaccine for streptococcus that makes tonsillitis, etc. We do not give chemoprophyosis to healthy children. To the children who were positive, let them be asymptomatic, the step advised parents to take them to the doctor and the doctor decide whether it is advisable to get antibiotics or not. ” He also stressed that the clinical picture of the child is of great importance to make the decision to be taken to the hospital, how quickly you have to go to the hospital or not.

“When one sees a little kid who is home and has no appetite to eat or play and go from one bed to another, it is a situation that is not normal for children, and there is definitely a pediatrician communication,” Mr Hatzigeorgiou said.