It may have been a brain infection -- not scarlet fever -- that caused Mary Ingalls of "Little House on the Prairie" to go blind. A new study published in Pediatrics on Feb. 4 shows that Laura Ingalls ...

My 1-year-old daughter recently got sick. She cried nonstop, she ran a fever, and her body broke out in a fiery red, spotty, measleslike rash. But it wasn't measles. (Recent outbreaks notwithstanding, ...

Scarlet fever is caused by group A strep bacteria and is highly contagious. You can have symptoms like a red, sandpaper-like ...

ASHTABULA, Ohio — The Ashtabula County Health Department is reporting "a spike" in cases of strep throat, plus a few reported cases of associated scarlet fever from strep throat infections.

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People have been urged to contact their GP for treatment if symptoms of scarlet fever develop Manx parents have been urged to make themselves aware of the symptoms of scarlet fever, a contagious ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'Strawberry tongue' is one sign of scarlet fever In the early 20th century, scarlet fever was one of the leading causes of infant ...

Strep A (Group A Streptococcus) is a common type of bacteria that typically causes throat infections and scarlet fever. While most infections are mild, in rare cases Strep A can cause invasive ...

Parents were today warned to be on their guard for 'highly contagious' and potentially lethal scarlet fever. The infectious disease, which was most prominent in the Victorian era, largely affects ...

Not as common as it was 100 years ago, scarlet fever -- scarlatina -- is a bacterial infection caused by group A Streptococcus or "group A strep." This illness affects a small percentage of people who ...