Rejected petition Screen all pregnant women for group B Strep

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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Why was this petition rejected?

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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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/111145

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Date submitted 14 January 2016
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