Why is scarlet fever called scarlet fever?

Answer 1

Scarlet Fever is named such because of it's most visible symptom, a distinctive red rash which begins on the neck and chest, then spreads to other areas on the body. Although other symptoms, such as fever, sore throat, and swollen tongues, also accompany the infection, the rash is the most noticeable.

Answer 2

This fever received various names, such as gastric fever, abdominal typhus, infantile remittant fever, slow fever, nervous fever, pythogenic fever, etc. The name of "typhoid" comes from the neuropsychiatric symptoms common to typhoid and typhus (from Greek, "stupor")

Answer 3

Scareltina is an entirely different illness

Scarlatina is a term that is interchangeable with Scarlet Fever. Often it indicates a less sever form of scarlet fever. But they are the same.

Answer 4

i have no idea where scarlet fever came from srry!

Answer 5

Scarlet fever was first seen in Germany in 1564 an 1565. It was referred to scalatina anginosa. It was first written about by the Italian doctor Giovanni Filippo Ingrassia.

Answer 6

By a girl named Scarlet