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Risks Of Scarlet Fever
Luckily, the prognosis of scarlet fever is good, (Davis, 2016) says that if a patient is treated with antibiotics, such as penicillin or amoxicillin, scarlet fever only has a mortality rate of 1%. The main risk of scarlet fever lies in the patients that do not get quickly diagnosed and thus do not receive treatment, because the mortality rate for those patients drastically increases to 15-20%. Overall, if identified and treated quickly, scarlet fever is not a very dangerous disease, even though it can spread quickly.
There are a few main risks I could see for the communities of Miami, Florida (population 5.5 million) and York, Pennsylvania, (population 43,00) if a patient was diagnosed with scarlet fever in each city. Beginning with Miami,
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