Little House books' Mary Ingalls probably did not go blind from scarlet fever, study says
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 07:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In the beloved American stories of the Little House on the Prairie, author Laura Ingalls Wilder writes emotionally about how scarlet fever robs her big sister Mary of her sight. But in a new study, researchers found it is likely scarlet fever had nothing to do with Mary's blindness.