Symptoms of bacterial diseases often include fever and chills. For more information on symptoms, refer to symptoms of bacterial diseases. Bacterial infections can lead to serious, even life-threatening complications, such as sepsis, kidney failure, toxic shock syndrome, and death.
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina) is an infectious fever, characterised by a sore throat, a red, diffuse eruption on the skin, followed by shedding of the superficial part of the skin. Inflammation of the ears and kidneys are common complications.
1. an abnormally high body temperature. 2. any of various diseases in which high temperature is a prominent symptom, as scarlet fever or rheumatic fever. 3. intense nervous excitement: in a fever of anticipation. 4. to affect with or as if with fever.