Yes, scarlet fever can cause heart damage.
Scarlet fever is a rash that is caused by strep infections.
Can scarlet fever cause breathing pain in cold weather
Streptococcus pyogenes alone do causes scarlet fever.
Untreated, the scarlet fever can cause death.
Scarlet fever.
1923
Nope
Gladys Dick, with her husband, George Dick, successfully isolated the bacteria which caused scarlet fever
easy she was born like that -- Blindness and deafness aren't diseases. Helen Keller wasn't born blind and deaf, when she was young she contracted scarlet fever or meningitis. As a result she lost both her hearing and her sight.
Scarlet Fever
It's not the "fever" part that gives Scarlet Fever it's name it's the rash and the red (scarlet) face that comes with it. Obviously you can have a fever with Scarlet fever...but not always. improved answer: Yes, you always get a fever with scarlet fever. scarlet is the colour of the rash and fever is what comes with it.