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Scarlet Fever.
Scarlet fever is caused by streptococcal bacteria, which is now the common sickness we call Strep Throat
Scarlet Fever occured in the early twentieth century.
It is unknown if Scarlet Fever occurred anywhere else besides the United States.
Some symptoms of Scarlet Fever are a sandpaper- like rash usually on the neckchest, elbow, and groin, under the arms, and on the inner thighs. There may also be red flushing color on the cheeks and paleness of the lips. High fever, nausea, and vomiting are also associated with this disease.
In the 1930s and 1940s, the world was forever changed with the development of antibiotic drugs. Penicillin proved to be effective because it wiped out the streptococcus infection in individual person, and on a larger scale, preventing the kinds previous epidemics similar to that in the past.
Some scientists believe that Hellen Keller had Scarlet Fever, which might have caused her blind and deafness
Scarlet Fever was just a horrible death causing sickness that is like our nowadays Strepthroat.
Nowadays when when get Strep, we don't develope a nasty rash on our bodies, but in the early twientieth century, people got rashes and died and they didn't even know how or why.
http://www.faqs.org/health/topics/40/Scarlet-fever.html http://dchealth.dc.gov/doh/cwp/view.asp?A=1370&Q=574213&dohNav=%7C33120%7C
