Any info on the incidents on infection by region would be welcome. The virulence of strep and other bacteria undergoes cyclical changes and always has. When I was a child, strep throat was common. I hardly heard of them as a young adult. Now the streptococci are back.
Nothing necessarily sinister or doomsday about that.
I don't have our hospital protocol here at home, sorry. Await spontaneous labour unless signs of infection, in which case it is induced. We have had numerous babies born over two months after ROM and they do amazingly well. In acute infections C-section may be used, while starting IV antibiotics. ROM at term is handled much the same way minus culture, if I remember correctly.