How to Use scarlet fever in a Sentence

scarlet fever

noun
  • When you're done, comment on this pin with a link to your scarlet fever board!
    Redbook, 10 July 2012
  • The antibiotic amoxicillin, used to treat strep throat and scarlet fever, is scarce in the US and the UK.
    WIRED, 11 Jan. 2023
  • People with strep throat can also have a rash, which is known as scarlet fever.
    Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Nick nearly drowned at two, fell out of a moving car at three and survived scarlet fever at eight.
    S.l. Price, SI.com, 9 May 2017
  • When the boy is sick with scarlet fever, the comfortable old toy comes back into favor.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 June 2022
  • In England, the number of cases of scarlet fever has tripled over two years, researchers reported in The Lancet.
    Kate Sheridan, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2018
  • As a child, Rudolph had pneumonia, scarlet fever and polio.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2022
  • Gerwig: Then the peak of method acting was when everyone got strep throat, the precursor to scarlet fever.
    Stacey Wilson Hunt, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2019
  • And then in 2018, scarlet fever cases in Germany rose above what had already occurred in England and Hong Kong.
    Maryn McKenna, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Gladstone’s Conklin thinks of his late father, who had scarlet fever and strep throat in the 1930s, before the advent of antibiotics.
    Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Sure, scarlet fever or consumption would have been a more apropos outbreak to prompt the growth of Bertsos Bakeshop, but no matter.
    Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Blind and deaf from scarlet fever at the age of nearly 2, Helen was completely shut in upon herself.
    Liane Kupferberg Carter, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Antibiotics would take much of the terror out of diseases such as scarlet fever and pneumonia.
    Perri Klass, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
  • One boy even younger, Charles Jacox, died at only seven years old, from scarlet fever, called scarletina at the time.
    Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 22 Oct. 2017
  • If your child has scarlet fever, consult a physician to be tested for strep throat and treated with antibiotics.
    Parents Editors, Parents, 6 June 2023
  • That's one of the reasons scarlet fever was a leading cause of heart disease for adults before penicillin was discovered.
    Meera Senthilingam and Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Symptoms typically include sore throat, headache, fever and a fine red rash known as scarlet fever.
    Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2022
  • This is a menace of many masks — among them strep throat, scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, toxic shock syndrome and flesh-eating disease.
    Christian Millman, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2018
  • At age 15, Harlean caught scarlet fever, an illness that may have contributed to her eventual death.
    Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Her most important role came in 1902 when a scarlet fever outbreak occurred in Hopkins.
    Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The new study follows research Earn has published on the historical spread of diseases such as bubonic plague, cholera and scarlet fever.
    Ryan Prior, CNN, 22 Dec. 2020
  • One of her older brothers died of complications of scarlet fever.
    New York Times, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Cases of measles fell 97% in the year through July compared with the year-earlier period, while both whooping cough and scarlet fever declined 62%.
    Fortune, 14 Aug. 2020
  • The damage to Edison’s hearing may have been aggravated by scarlet fever.
    David Owen, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2019
  • As the 20th of 22 children, she was well loved but struggled with illness for much of her childhood, battling double pneumonia, scarlet fever, and whooping cough.
    Kate Siber, Outside Online, 8 June 2018
  • Rising levels of illnesses like flu and covid-19, as well as scarlet fever and strep throat in children, are also driving up demand for some services.
    Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2022
  • His team also has similar work ongoing about the history of whooping cough, measles and scarlet fever.
    Ryan Prior, CNN, 22 Dec. 2020
  • An example is rheumatic fever, which can be triggered by Streptococcus bacteria in the form of strep throat or scarlet fever.
    Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2021
  • But mostly the production just marches through the story, giving everything equal weight — Amy falls through the ice, Beth gets scarlet fever, Meg marries, and each crisis feels pretty much like the others.
    New York Times, 11 May 2018
  • For the most part, infected persons will not get sick from the bacteria, although mild cases can cause strep throat, scarlet fever or a skin infection, officials said.
    Fox News, 27 June 2019

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