Rising numbers of women are dying during pregnancy or soon after childbirth from a seemingly harmless bug, a report warns.
Death rates from the Group A streptococcal infection, which usually just causes a sore throat, have risen by nearly a third since 2005.
Doctors say that deaths could have been prevented if the bug had been diagnosed by medical staff in time and treated with antibiotics.
The Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries (CMACE) found that 29 women died from the infection between 2006 and 2008, up from 21 between 2003 and 2005 and 13 from 2000 to 2002.
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