Ask our GP: My four children have all come down with scarlet fever. Why is ... Scarlet fever was indeed common in Victorian times and pre-antibiotics it was a serious and often deadly disease. ... There has been a particularly high incidence of scarlet fever infection in the UK and Ireland in recent months. read more
Family doctors have been told to look out for scarlet fever as the once feared Victorian disease has made an alarming comeback. Primary schools across Britain are being hit by the disease as the numbers of children being infected by the bug have hit a 50-year high. read more
The stuff of Victorian nightmares is marching through the country once again: cases of scarlet fever have hit a 50-year high. After barely 2,000 annual cases of the highly contagious illness in recent years, there were 17,586 in England and Wales in 2015. read more