Scarlet fever becomes a killer in Hong Kong

Monday, June 27, 2011 - 13:00 in Health & Medicine

Ultra-modern 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, a rise in a mutated strain that appears to be more contagious.

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