UK rise in children with "throat infection"

[Chemar]

I was amazed that there was no mention of what these "throat infections" were caused by

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20002115

[Wombat140]

It's just the way people talk in this country. For some reason we don't call bacteria by their Christian names in the same way that Americans do. If you called a throat infection "streptococcus" in a lay news article, people would look at you funny. I dare say the researchers know perfectly well what the infections were. At least I about hope so!

[dut]

Hi - yeh we're from uk too (well used to be) and I agree about names I'd never heard strep mentioned by name before we came to US. The article is trying to highlight the way people are forced to go direct to hospital to get decent service 'cos wait times are so cr*p in the uk for a doctor rather than infection rates are actually rising. My bother has done this a number of times for his kids for stuff you never would have when I was a child just 'cos trying to get in to see a doctorm in a timely mannerm can be so hard.

 

Wombat - do you mind letting me know who you have found to work with you on PANDAS? Good to hear you found someone.

[Chemar]

lol Wombat I had to giggle as I have never heard of a "Christian" name for a microbe

I am guessing you mean biological name

 

I lived and studied in the UK for a number of years and was not aware of a lack of nomenclature identifying infectious agents tho? Maybe I just was not paying finite attention to it.