at age 14
Scarlet Fever it settled in her eyes and made her blind.
Mary blindness was gradual in coming after a bout of scarlet fever.
Laura Ingalls didn't get scarlet fever. Her sisters and ma did, but she never got it.
It has not been definitively proven that Mary Ingalls Wilder faked her blindness. In her autobiography, Laura Ingalls Wilder describes Mary's bout of scarlet fever that eventually led to her blindness. Some scholars have speculated that it may have been a misdiagnosis or a different illness altogether.
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.
We learn about Mary's loss in On The Shores of Silver Lake but she had lost her eyesight a little before that, when Caroline, Carrie, Grace and Mary all caught the measles or as they called it, scarlet fever.
She had three sisters. Mary the oldest, died from pneumonia and complications from a stroke. Diabetes ran in the Ingalls family and Laura, Carrie, and Grace all eventually died from complications of the disease.
The kingdom scarlet fever is in is the Monera kingdom.
scarlet fever can attack your eyes you would be blind
Mary Ingalls went blind at age 15 from scarlet fever.
antibiotics
Scarlet fever is also known as scarlatina