Scarlet Fever

I'm still waiting to hear from my grandmother, but I do have a story. My oldest girl has scarlet fever right now. She seems to be doing ok, but we want to make sure it doesn't get to her heart. When my grandmother found out about it, she was very concerned, and here is why:

When my grandmother was a little girl, she and her oldest brother both caught scarlet fever. They did not have antibiotics in those days, so their house was quarantined. They were not supposed to sell milk even, but they needed the money (they lived in a tar paper shack, but nearly everyone else around them was poor too - it took her years to figure out just how poor they were).

She was very sick, and her mother made a bed for her out of two chairs and a blanket by the wood stove so she would stay warm in the kitchen. She always speaks of her mother with great affection.

So anyway, a disease out of the history books has hit Brianna. She is feeling better, but I had never heard of scarlet fever still making an appearance.