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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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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

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

From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2025

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

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2025

“Well, the chicken pox is not the problem. See, she can’t go to school, so Jordan stays with her and he, and he...”

From "Forged by Fire" by Sharon M. Draper