'I'm sharing photos of my boy so other parents see how fast Strep A strikes'
But two hours later, they found him struggling to breathe.
In the comments section, Amy said that before he started with the laboured breathing, her little boy had only presented with awas an 'old illness' until her older children came down with it.Adele Armstrong said she has never been so scared in her life after her five-year-old son Antonio was struck down by the often-fatal illness.
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