chicken pox

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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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chicken pox

It is triggered by the same virus that leads to chicken pox -- varicella-zoster.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2025

Smith was a sickly child, contracting bronchial pneumonia, tuberculosis, German measles, mumps and chicken pox which kept her in "periods of lengthy bed rest".

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025

Nor was it ever used in vaccines against chicken pox, polio or pneumonia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025

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

From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2024

Tell Scout I came down with a sudden case of the chicken pox.

From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko

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