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Make it essential for all pregnant women to be tested for Group B Strep

Submitted on Thursday 11th November 2021

Rejected on Wednesday 17th November 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make it essential for all pregnant women to be tested for Group B Strep

Petition Details

There are too many babies and
Mothers lost now to this awful bacterial infection common in 40% of
Women. We want it to be essential that all mothers are swabbed and if positive administered simple antibiotics to prevent loss of life, critical illness and long term brain damage.

Additional Information

Make it a free obligatory test offered to all pregnant women 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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You may wish to sign this petition calling for a similar action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/590071

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