That is unknown, as the doctors in her time were unable to make a positive diagnosis,but it is now believed to have been scarlet fever or meningitis.
Scarlet fever (meningitis)
At nineteen months old, Helen Keller contracted a serious illness, believed to have been scarlet fever or meningitis. The disease left her deaf and blind.
Helen Keller was not known to have a specific disease. She was left deaf and blind after an illness in her infancy, which is believed to have been either scarlet fever or meningitis.
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 and meningitis which led her to be death and blind
scarlet fever
Helen Keller had scarlet fever, a bacterial infection, which caused her to lose her sight and hearing at the age of 19 months.
It is believed that scarlet fever or meningitis was the illness that caused Helen Keller to become blind and deaf at a young age.
Yes, Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing due to an illness at the age of 19 months, which is believed to have been scarlet fever or meningitis.
She was nineteen months old when 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.
Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf; it was not until she was nineteen months old that 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.
Helen Keller became blind and deaf at the age of 19 months due to an illness that is believed to have been either scarlet fever or meningitis.