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Chicken Pox – What You Should Know About This Infectious Disease

Chicken pox is the common name for Varicella simplex,
classically one of the childhood infectious diseases caught and
survived by most children.
Chicken pox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. It starts
with moderate fever and then characteristic spots appearing in
two or three waves, mainly on the body and head rather than the
hands and becoming itchy raw pox (pocks), [...]