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 ...

IRISH parents are being urged to recognise the signs of scarlet fever – and know when it’s time to bring your child to a ...

Not as common as it was 100 years ago, scarlet fever -- scarlatina -- is a bacterial infection caused by group A Streptococcus or "group A strep." This illness affects a small percentage of people who ...

WellSpan Pediatric Medicine Physicians across the Midstate are seeing strep throat, stomach bugs and mild colds with a cough and congestion. This week, the providers of UPMC Children’s Community ...

Since local health officials began tending to an outbreak of scarlet fever in a D.C. elementary school 10 days ago, scattered cases have cropped up almost daily in schools across the Washington region ...

Perioral dermatitis is a red rash that appears around your mouth and nose and causes red, inflamed, swollen bumps on the ...

The Ashtabula County Health Department is reporting "a spike" in cases of strep throat, plus a few reported cases of associated scarlet fever from strep throat infections. "Unfortunately, we are not ...

Ten years ago, a healthy 12-year-old named Rory Staunton dove after a basketball in his gym class in Queens, New York. He tripped and scraped his elbow; it didn’t look serious, so his gym teacher ...

It's that time of year again, when winter bugs seem to be everywhere and if your child is at school or nursery and in close contact with others, they're bound to pick up the odd illness or two. Colder ...

Most communicable of all contagious diseases is measles. It spreads much faster than its nearest morbid rivals, smallpox and influenza. And it infects practically every person exposed to it, unless he ...