The Isle of Man's Public Health Directorate urges parents to look out for the signs of the illness.

My 1-year-old daughter recently got sick. She cried nonstop, she ran a fever, and her body broke out in a fiery red, spotty, measleslike rash. But it wasn't measles. (Recent outbreaks notwithstanding, ...

Cases of chickenpox and scarlet fever are "circulating in the school community", Guernsey's Public Health Services (PHS) has said. It has asked parents to look out for symptoms and contact their GP as ...

Researchers have identified the genetic material of scarlet fever while examining a tooth from a naturally mummified skull housed at MUNARQ, the National Museum of Archaeology in La Paz. Using a ...

A 700-year-old mummy from the Bolivian Andes is quietly reshaping what scientists thought they knew about ancient diseases.

Strep A (Group A Streptococcus) is a common type of bacteria that typically causes throat infections and scarlet fever. While most infections are mild, in rare cases Strep A can cause invasive ...

Before the invention of modern antibiotics, the disease was a leading cause of childhood death and disability, sometimes ...

Learn how the bacterium for scarlet fever was found in a pre-Colombian mummy from Bolivia, challenging the history of the ...