Mutated scarlet fever fuels Hong Kong outbreak

Monday, June 27, 2011 - 06:00 in Health & Medicine

Ultramodern Hong Kong is tussling with a centuries-old bug long forgotten in many developed countries - an outbreak of drug-resistant scarlet fever that has killed the first children there in a decade. And with it is the rise of a mutated strain that appears to be more contagious....

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