Scarlet fever has resurged in China starting in 2011, and the environment is one of the potential reasons. Nationwide data on 655,039 scarlet fever cases and six air pollutants were retrieved. Exposure risks were evaluated by multivariate distributed lag nonlinear models and a meta-regression model...
Scarlet fever is a superantigen-mediated acute infectious disease caused by the human-adapted pathogen group AStreptococcus(GAS). Scarlet fever was a leading cause of death in children in the early 1900s, but its incidence steadily declined during the 20th century1,2. Large regional outbreaks of...