Acute communicable disease (7,5)

I believe the answer is:

scarlet fever

(Other definitions for scarlet fever that I've seen before include "Disease causing rash" , "Infectious disease of children" , "Infectious disease producing rash" , "complaint" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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