Scarlet Fever Spreads in North Korea’s Eastern Area

Daily NK: "It has been revealed that in the midst of an epidemic of Scarlet Fever spreading in Yangkang and Hamkyung Provinces, North Korean authorities stopped the activities of merchants by taking steps to prohibit travel, and daily lives are being severely impacted in December 2006.

North Korean authorities are currently taking steps to blockade those regions where Scarlet Fever has broken out."