Scarletina or Scarlet Fever
Ninth grade was a big year I was away from home in boarding school and in high school. I had a roommate from Honduras, we both got a bug and after a trip to the local doctors office were told that we had “SCARLETINA”. We spent the next week or ten days confined to our room. I never gave it much thought again for the next twenty-five plus years.
In the intervening years I’m diagnosed with “RA”, and with no family history I thought what could possible have triggered my RA. Then I remembered the Scarletina episode so many years ago, And wondered if the two could possibly be related.
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