chicken pox
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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
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
It is caused by a reactivation of the Herpes zoster virus - the virus that causes chicken pox.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2024
He remembered when he got chicken pox how Aunt Queen had made a warm poultice out of something she found in the garden, and the itch had disappeared.
From "Forged by Fire" by Sharon M. Draper
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