chicken pox

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.

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

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HHS is now expanding the net to include a form of the chicken pox vaccine and even a version of the hepatitis B vaccine.

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In rare cases chicken pox can cause a swelling of the brain, called encephalitis; an inflammation of the lungs, called pneumonitis; and stroke, which can result in hospitalisation and - very rarely - death.

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At first, the Alberta mother assumed it was a common side effect of immunisations - or perhaps a case of chicken pox.

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If not shots, why not host a version of the 1970s chicken pox party?

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

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