• Question: Who invented Scarlet Fever.What would if you had Scarlet Fever

    Asked by anon-350280 on 14 Mar 2023.
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      Edward Guy answered on 14 Mar 2023:


      The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, around 400 BC, described symptoms in a patient that sound like they were scarlet fever, but it was definitely seen in the 1500s. Scarlet fever is caused by the bacterium Streptococcus so,if someone gets the disease, it can be treated with antibiotics.

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