chicken pox

     

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Trivia about chicken pox

  • AKA varicella, it's marked by blisterlike eruptions on the skin & is even more severe in adults than children
  • Of measles, mumps or chicken pox, the one for which no vaccine is generally available
  • The virus that causes this kids' disease can cause shingles in later life
  • Spontaneous nose inversion, foot attack & this "fowl" 10-letter skin disease whose incubation period averages 2-3 weeks
  • I'm not a rooster, so I hope I'm not coming down with this disease also known as varicella
  • What do you mean my shingles is like a second coming of this childhood disease? Wasn't once enough?
  • Varicella
  • You may get shingles years after recuperating from the same virus which causes this "spotted" illness