Author: Trisha Leigh Zeigenhorn / Source: did you know?
While measles is making an unwanted comeback in the United States, the United Kingdom is dealing with their own reemergence of Dickensian diseases like scarlet fever, whooping cough, and gout.
Data from the UK National Health Service shows a 52% increase in four key “Victorian diseases” since 2010/2011 – many of which were assumed to have disappeared along with chamber pots.
The rise of sanitation, vaccinations, and modern science seemed to have these diseases on the run, but the recent data shows that they’re not going down without a fight.Cases of scarlet fever have increased by 208% in the past decade, going from 429 cases in 2010/11 to 1321 cases in 2017/2018. The disease was the leading cause of death in children in the early 20th century and presents with a sore throat, fever, headache, swollen lymph nodes, and a pink-red rash.
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