scarlett fever
It is believed that scarlet fever or meningitis was the illness that caused Helen Keller to become blind and deaf at a young age.
2ish or younger.
Helen keller's diseases were scarlet fever , meningetis which made her blind and deaf.
In 1882 Helen acquired a high fiver that doctors called Brain Fever which now might be Scarlet Fever or Meningitis that damaged her brain and when she was nineteen months old she became blind and deaf as a result.
She was blind and deaf. When she was an infant, she had a very high fever, and with super high fevers, (not the kinds that are just 101 degrees, but I'm talking 110 to 115) there are side effects..and she had a side effect that was subsequent to her fever, and that made her blind and deaf.
When she was nineteen months old she contracted an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain," which could possibly have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The disease was short lived, but the result was that she was left deaf and blind.
Helen Keller had an illness that made her deaf and blind. Since she's deaf, she was also dumb.
Helen Keller contracted scarlet fever as a child, which left her both deaf and blind.
Helen Keller is famous because she made a huge and great blind and deaf school.
Helen Keller was left blind and deaf due to a severe illness, widely believed to be scarlet fever or possibly meningitis, at the age of 19 months. The exact cause of her illness remains unclear, as records from that time were not detailed enough to provide a definitive diagnosis.
Helen Keller was diagnosed with an illness, at the age of 19 months, which left her blind and deaf. This made communication and learning challenging for her until she was introduced to her teacher, Anne Sullivan, who helped unlock her potential through tactile sign language.