Women want protection from deadly new born baby infection

Some 97% of women think all pregnant women should routinely be offered a reliable test for group B Strep (group B Streptococcus or GBS), according to new data just published.  The research, conducted among 2,102 pregnant women on Bounty’s ‘Word of Mum’ Research Panel, showed that 41% of women had not heard of group B Strep. Of those who had heard of group B Strep, 33% of women had heard about it from a midwife, GP practice or antenatal class, 67% had heard of it from other sources, almost half of these from a pregnancy book or magazine.  Meanwhile, of