Mutated scarlet fever fuels Hong Kong outbreak
Monday, June 27, 2011 - 10:01
in Health & Medicine
(AP) -- Ultramodern Hong Kong is tussling with a centuries-old bug long forgotten in many developed countries - an outbreak of drug-resistant scarlet fever that has killed the first children there in a decade. And with it is the rise of a mutated strain that appears to be more contagious.