Surge in scarlet fever cases

18 December 2017

Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection has alerted ‘parents, schools/institutions and healthcare professionals for heightened vigilance against scarlet fever (SF) as its activity sharply increased last week and has reached a very high level’. Almost 2,000 cases have been recorded for the year to December. Read more about scarlet fever from the CHP.

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Asia

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