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chicken pox

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1. A mild but highly contagious disease, caused by a virus and characterized by slight fever and the eruption of blisters on the skin. Chicken pox is classified as a disease of childhood, although it can occur in adults.

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Children who have had chicken pox are immune to future infection by the virus that causes it.

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The affected data include childhood immunization rates against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles, mumps and rubella, hepatitis, chicken pox and flu; and rates for 13 year olds and expectant mothers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

Adicoff, who made his Paralympic debut in Sochi as a teenager, suffered sight loss after contracting chicken pox in the womb.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026

When someone gets chicken pox, usually in childhood, the virus does not fully leave the body.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2025

So it keeps passing along like it's chicken pox.

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2024

—Getting chicken pox, both of us, in the eighth grade, and staying at your house for a week, because we couldn’t go to school.

From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper