Hong Kong boy dies of mutated scarlet fever

Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 09:00 in Health & Medicine

A mutated strain of scarlet fever more resistant to antibiotics has killed a second child in Hong Kong, the first deaths from the illness in the southern Chinese city in at least a decade, authorities say.

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