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Screen all pregnant women for group B Strep

Submitted on Thursday 14th January 2016

Rejected on Friday 15th January 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

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Screen all pregnant women for group B Strep

Petition Details

GBS is a bacterial infection that can be passed from mother to baby during labour. One in ten babies who contract it die, and it remains the biggest bacterial killer of newborns in the UK.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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