![]() ![]() (She did have scarlet fever when she was much younger.) “She never says scarlet fever. In Wilder’s unpublished memoir, “Pioneer Girl,” there is no reference to Mary having scarlet fever the year she went blind. Over the course of 10 years, she and her team of researchers pored over old papers and letters written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, local newspaper accounts of Mary’s illness and epidemiological data on blindness and infectious disease in the late 19th century. Mary Ingalls went blind from it,’ ” recalled Tarini, who is now an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Michigan. ![]() We were talking about scarlet fever, and I said, ‘Oh, scarlet fever makes you go blind. ![]() 'Little House on the Prairie' movie lands at Paramount Still of Melissa Sue Anderson, Michael Landon, Karen Grassle and Matthew Labyorteaux in Little House on the Prairie (1974) NBC ![]()
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