Scarlet fever cases at unexplained 50-year high

Published time: 30 Nov, 2017 04:13 Scarlet fever, the highly infectious, once-deadly disease last feared by parents of young children in the 1940s, has re-emerged, hitting a 50-year peak in England. After decades of decline the infection has been steadily rising in the UK since 2014, and by 2016 over 19,000 cases from 620 outbreaks […]