Scarlet Fever: An Exploration Based on Characteristics, History and The Intervention

Abstract

Scarlet Fever, a fever that has strong infectious ability, has caused many outbreaks in decades, grabbing people’s attention and awareness in the past ten years. A high density of the population is disturbed by this disease until today’s world. Outbreaks and cases mainly present in cohorts under 13, increasing the burden of infectious diseases on children and adolescents. Potential outbreak places for scarlet fever are intensive working or living places such as school, hospital or neighborhood. Historically, a high proportion of scarlet fever outbreaks take place in school. Understanding the epidemic history of scarlet fever still has important reference value and enlightenment significance for preventing and controlling modern scarlet fever outbreak. This article is aimed to spread awareness and educate the public about scarlet fever based on existing research and publication of the characteristics of scarlet fever, diagnosis, treatment, statistics of past outbreaks and existing interventions to let the public have an objective view of the disease.