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It starts with fever, a very painful sore throat, headache, and vomiting. ... This isn’t the new virus movie, but an old disease called scarlet
fever. ... Back then, children
would be lying drenched in sweat, delirious with high fever, while mothers, fathers and
doctors shook their heads and watched the suffering of their child. ...
Today scarlet fever is treated with antibiotics and serious problems rarely occur. In
fact, antibiotics also prevent the spread of scarlet fever to other children and family
members. Scarlet fever is no longer associated with the deadly epidemics that made it
feared in the 1800’s. ...
How do you get scarlet fever, also called strep throat?
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