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A burn is damage to your body's tissues caused by heat, chemicals, electricity, sunlight, or radiation. Scalds from hot liquids and steam, building fires and flammable liquids and gases are the most common causes of burns. Another kind is an inhalation injury, caused by breathing smoke. There are three types of burns:
Definition. 1  Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS) is a disease, caused by a type of bacteria, in which large sheets of skin may peel away. 2  SSSS primarily strikes children under the age of five, particularly infants. 3  SSSS is caused by a type of bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus.  SSSS begins with a small area of infection.