  We explored the coupling of strange quark to the state of mass close to 126
GeV recently observed by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC. An enhanced
coupling relative to the expectations for a SM Higgs has the effect of
increasing both the inclusive production cross section and the partial decay
width into jets. For very large modifications, the latter dominates and the net
rate into non-jet decay modes such as diphotons is suppressed, with the result
that one can use observations of the diphoton decay mode to place an upper
limit on the strange quark coupling. We find that the current observations of
the diphoton decay mode imply that the coupling of the new resonance to strange
quark can be at most ~ 50 times the SM expectation at the 95 % C.L., if one
assumes at most a O(1) modification of the coupling to gluons.
