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 ...

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… ...

Scarlet fever, sometimes known as scarlatina, is an infectious disease caused by these bacteria. Symptoms are often mild, including a rash and a red face, but can become dangerous if left untreated.

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 ...

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 Skip to main content News ...

Scarlet fever killed biologist Charles Darwin's 10-year-old daughter in 1851 and his last child, an 18-month-old son, in 1858. Scarlet fever also claimed the life of the 3-year-old grandson of oil ...

Latest UKHSA data shows there were 12,176 scarlet fever cases confirmed in England between January to March 2024, including 1,011 cases in just the first two weeks.