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
  • 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
  • The official cause of death was scarlet fever, but this seems to be a cover for suicide.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • When the boy is sick with scarlet fever, the comfortable old toy comes back into favor.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 June 2022
  • Symptoms typically include sore throat, headache, fever and a fine red rash known as scarlet fever.
    — Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2022
  • One of her older brothers died of complications of scarlet fever.
    — New York Times, 2 Oct. 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
  • If your child has scarlet fever, consult a physician to be tested for strep throat and treated with antibiotics.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 3 Sep. 2023
  • If your child has scarlet fever, consult a physician to be tested for strep throat and treated with antibiotics.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 3 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • After it, among other things, there was scarlet fever and severe anemia, which is to say illness has been an ever-present houseguest.
    — Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
  • 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
  • His team also has similar work ongoing about the history of whooping cough, measles and scarlet fever.
    — Ryan Prior, CNN, 22 Dec. 2020
  • On Saturday, my two-year-old daughter developed scarlet fever.
    — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2022
  • At age 15, Harlean caught scarlet fever, an illness that may have contributed to her eventual death.
    — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The damage to Edison’s hearing may have been aggravated by scarlet fever.
    — David Owen, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Some, like strep throat and scarlet fever, can be relatively mild and are usually treated with antibiotics.
    — Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Some infections, like impetigo, strep throat and scarlet fever, are treatable with antibiotics.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Most of the children succumbed to illnesses like tuberculosis, flu and scarlet fever.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 13 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Her most important role came in 1902 when a scarlet fever outbreak occurred in Hopkins.
    — Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Shortly thereafter, Igra was hospitalized with scarlet fever.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 14 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • The antibiotic amoxicillin, used to treat strep throat and scarlet fever, is scarce in the US and the UK.
    — WIRED, 11 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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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