I thought I had misheard. Scarlet fever sounds like something from a different century. Many people today are only vaguely ...

Scarlet fever is a bacterial infection that causes a bright red rash. It looks and feels like sandpaper, and it's sometimes called "sandpaper rash." The infection, also called scarlatina, spreads ...

Scarlet fever has been as prevalent as 15 per 100,000 or higher in the past four weeks, statistics show, and it can cause ear infections, throat abscesses and sinusitis.

Nonetheless, major epidemics of scarlet fever -- a classic illness, which nearly always follows strep throat -- began in Hong Kong and China as early as 2011 to 2014 and have continued to present day.

Scarlet fever is known for causing a rash, but as cases of the bacterial illness spike in Britain people are being advised that this is not in fact the first sign to keep an eye out for.

HEALTH chiefs have alerted the public to a “highly contagious” disease with “serious” complications. Scarlet fever was the leading cause of infant death during the Victorian… ...

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — A Bacteriological Study of Four Hundred Cases of Inflammation of the Throat, Occurring in Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever, with Especial ...

Korea saw a 54 percent rise in infectious disease cases, particularly respiratory illnesses among children, with whooping cough cases surging dramatically. Deaths also increased by 18.2 percent.

Scarlet fever is a contagious infection that more commonly affects children. Caused by strep A bacteria, which is often found in the nose or mouth, it is typically spread through respiratory ...

In the early 20th century, scarlet fever was one of the leading causes of infant death, sometimes wiping out an entire family’s children. Over 2,800 deaths were recorded at the height of the ...

Scarlet fever was fatal to every... The Government last week knew of 6,070 cases of scarlet fever in the country. This incidence was not large enough to worry about, but enough to warrant warnings.