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Global health authorities fear ‘supercharged’ scarlet fever virus is re-emerging after 70 years – NEWS.com.au
Global health authorities fear ‘supercharged’ scarlet fever virus is re-emerging after 70 years
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, global health authorities are on edge about the resurgence of a killer virus thought eradicated in the 1940s scarlet fever. Public health measures such as social distancing and school closures that were introduced to combat the coronavirus have largely put a pause on the surge, after an epidemic broke out in Asian countries in 2011. There has since been a second outbreak in the UK in 2014, and isolated outbreaks in Australia.
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