Japan is seeing a record-high number of cases of a potentially deadly disease caused by “flesh-eating” bacteria, with Tokyo recording the most number of cases among the other prefectures. There have been 977 cases of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome in Japan in the first half of 2024, said Japan’s national infectious disease institute on June...

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