Scarlet fever is a contagious infection that typically infects young children - particularly those between the ages of two ...

Parents with young children have been warned to remain on high alert for a health condition that could cause kids to develop ...

Scarlet fever is reemerging in certain parts of the world for reasons unknown to researchers and health officials, reports Vox. Scarlet fever is making a comeback — and no one knows why ...

Parents with children under the age of eight have been warned to look out for a medical condition that may cause kids to ...

Is scarlet fever increasing in the US, too? Not that we know of. Doctors don’t have to report cases of scarlet fever to the CDC, so we don’t have data on how many cases there have been.

Scarlet fever seems to be making a comeback, and scientists have found a bacterial "clone" could be the culprit.

In the 19th century, scarlet fever was a common killer in Europe. In 2016, nearly 20,000 cases were reported in the United Kingdom -- the biggest increase in 50 years.

Lamagni noted that in 2013 scarlet fever cases in England and Wales were seen at a rate of about 8 per 100,000 children. That soared to 27 per 100,000 in 2014 and 33 per 100,000 in 2016.

But scarlet fever never went away—and in places that count their cases, its occurrence has been rising fitfully since the 2000s. Cases began to rise in Singapore in 2006 and in South Korea in 2008.

Scarlet fever (or scarletina) is caused by group A Streptococcus bacteria, and it most commonly affects children between the ages of 5 and 12. Only a small number of people who have strep throat ...

Scarlet fever, or scarlatina, is a bacterial infection. Specifically, it's a "group A streptococcal," infectious disease, which usually occurs in childhood and most commonly in winter and spring.

It’s one of those notes sent home from school that causes shivers of alarm: a case of scarlet fever, a “highly contagious” disease that causes a telltale bright red sandpapery rash, has been ...