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, ...
Rheumatic fever (RF) and scarlet fever are both caused by group A Streptococcus bacteria, but they present with different symptoms and complications, some of them potentially serious. Scarlet fever is ...
Parents have been warned to look out for the symptoms of a highly contagious disease after a surge in cases among children. Scarlet fever is most common among children aged from two to eight, and the ...