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UQ scientists behind scarlet fever research

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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.

Experts say at least 600,000…



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