The disease mainly affects children, but are adults also at risk? And just how much do we actually know about scarlet fever (i.e. how it spreads, the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatments)?

Symptoms of the contagious condition include mouth ulcers and a raised rash of spots on the hands and feet. It is most common in children under 10 but can affect adults too. Scarlet fever symptoms ...

The initial symptoms of scarlet fever can mimic those of the flu, including a high temperature, sore throat and swollen neck glands. A rash typically appears 12 to 48 hours later, characterised by ...

Since the lifting of COVID-19 quarantine measures, various infectious diseases such as chickenpox, measles, whooping cough, scarlet fever, intestinal bacteria ...

but not for people who have symptoms of scarlet fever. They can identify strep A - but not whether or not someone is likely to have the more severe complications caused by invasive strep A (iGAS).