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 1914 ...

In 1925, Gladys Henry Dick, above, and her husband, George Dick, were nominated for a Nobel Prize for creating a vaccine for the treatment and prevention of scarlet fever. Special for the University ...

Scarlet fever’s power to kill in epidemic proportion was severely weakened by the development of a vaccine in the 1920s. Typically arriving in cold weather, scarlet fever targeted the young. On Jan.

GP and paediatrics specialist Dr David Capehorn provides an update for GPs on recognition and management of infectious ...

A problem or a crisis may start with one event, but it often takes many connections to find a solution. The adage is that it takes a village to raise a child. In this instance, it took the people of ...

Here’s our weekly round-up of what illnesses are spreading the most in Metro Detroit communities, according to our local doctors and hospitals. “Flu cases are finally decreasing. We’d also like to ...

Rheumatic fever and scarlet fever both occur due to a bacterial infection. However, they have some important differences to consider. Rheumatic fever is a complication of under-managed bacterial ...

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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 ...