Little Women

Explain why Beth gets scarlet fever, but her sisters don’t.

in a couple of sentences or even one it doesn't matter

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Meg and Jo don't get scarlet fever because they've already had it as children. Beth and Amy have never had the disease, and that's why Beth contracts it, and Amy is sent away.

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