There's nothing romantic about the return of scarlet fever
19th September 2019
Scarlet fever conjures an image of the saintly character Beth March in the 19th-century novel Little Women, the third of four daughters and the one who succumbs to the disease.
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But recent developments remind us it’s an infection not to be romanticised nor relegated to the past, with fears the once-common childhood killer might make a comeback.
Epidemic scarlet fever has
