If left untreated, scarlet fever can lead to serious complications such as rheumatic fever, which can damage the heart, joints, and nervous system, and post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis, an ...

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

Alarmed by the spreading rash and worsening symptoms, I rushed my screaming toddler to an emergency room, where a doctor calmly diagnosed her with scarlet fever. I thought I had misheard.

The Ashtabula County Health Department says strep is "a bacterial infection that causes several symptoms like sore throat, red tonsils, headaches, fevers, and stomach pain (most common in children)." ...

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

Wayne County – Scarlet fever, influenza, upper respiratory infections, stomach viruses, seasonal allergies Dr. Daniel Taylor -- Chief of Emergency Medicine, DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital ...

Scarlet fever is a bacterial disease with sandpaper-like rash that spreads over the body, according to Mount Sinai, in addition to other symptoms — many of which were exhibited by Jones.