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Strep A cases are rising. We must remember our earliest hygiene lessons as vaccine trials continue
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Group A streptococci, also known as “strep A”, were the first organisms ever identified to be the cause of a disease. In the mid-1800s, Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis first noted the link between a lack of hygienic practices…