Today, many people in the U.S and Europe don’t know what scarlet fever is and some haven’t heard of it. However in the 1800’s that was not the case. According to Scienceblogs, …show more content…
Some symptoms, according to Scienceblogs, body aches, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, and a red rash which gives scarlet fever its name. These symptoms cause a lot of pain and discomfort to those who have it. Even worse than the pain of scarlet fever, was the fear of being the next victim of this disease. Unfortunately, many faced their worst fear and became another number on the death toll. This is an example of the red rash from scarlet fever.
Scarlet fever was a frightening disease in the 1800’s until the late 1900’s when doctors started making medical evolutions. Scarlet fever is a rare disease now but through the 1800’s and the early 1900’s that was not the case. Scarlet fever was an uncontrollable disease which spread through most of U.S and Europe. Medical experts tried to figure out this terrible disease Wright