Explainer: What Is the Deadly Strep Hitting Canada in Record Numbers

The type of strep that has infected an increasing number of people across several Canadian provinces in the past few months can be life-threatening, according to experts. “There are many types of Group A strep,” UBC professor of microbiology and immunology Bob Hancock told The Epoch Times. “There’s also things like Strep throat, but this is the worst manifestation of it basically because of this flesh-eating disease, which can cause people to lose limbs or go into very, very serious disease or even die.” “It produces toxins that are called super antigens and essentially they make the body’s immune system go bananas that starts to cause the body to destroy itself.”...