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    Chickenpox, also known as varicella (/ˌvɛrəˈsɛlə/ VER-ə-SEL-ə), is a highly contagious, vaccine-preventable disease caused by the initial infection with...
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    Varicella vaccine, also known as chickenpox vaccine, is a vaccine that protects against chickenpox. One dose of vaccine prevents 95% of moderate disease...
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  • Chickenpox is a highly contagious illness caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus. Chickenpox may also refer to: Chickenpox (South Park)...
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  • Pox party (redirect from Chickenpox party)
    which children are deliberately exposed to infectious diseases such as chickenpox. Such parties originated to "get it over with" before vaccines were available...
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    is one of nine known herpes viruses that can infect humans. It causes chickenpox (varicella) commonly affecting children and young adults, and shingles...
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    Shingles (category Chickenpox)
    caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV) that also causes chickenpox. In the case of chickenpox, also called varicella, the initial infection with the virus...
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  • appearance of chickenpox in Australia may also complicate the scenarios of those who are quite sure that the 1789 outbreak was not chickenpox. Chickenpox, as Fenner...
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    begins shortly after recovery from a viral infection, such as influenza or chickenpox. About 90% of cases in children are associated with aspirin (salicylate)...
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  • may refer to: Chickenpox, a disease caused by infection with varicella zoster Varicella vaccine, a vaccine that protects against chickenpox and shingles...
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  • Chickenpox was a Swedish ska band signed to Burning Heart Records. They existed from 1994 until they broke up in 2002. At Mickey Cohen's Thursdaynight...
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    endemic. However, the number of people who get chickenpox in the UK varies little from year to year, so chickenpox is considered endemic in the UK. For an infection...
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    for The Goonies. Before The Goonies started filming, Cohen contracted chickenpox. Afraid that they would re-cast the role, he told no one of his illness...
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  • 2013) was a Japanese virologist, best known for inventing the first chickenpox vaccine. He developed the "Oka" vaccine by producing v-Oka, a live-attenuated...
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    air by coughing and sneezing, including influenza viruses, SARS-CoV-2, chickenpox, smallpox, and measles. Norovirus and rotavirus, common causes of viral...
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  • "Chickenpox" is the tenth episode of the second season of the American animated television series South Park. The 23rd episode of the series overall, it...
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    Zoster vaccine (category Chickenpox)
    reactivation of the varicella zoster virus, which is also responsible for chickenpox. Shingles provokes a painful rash with blisters, and can be followed by...
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    the diagnosis of infection. Chickenpox was commonly confused with smallpox in the immediate post-eradication era. Chickenpox and smallpox could be distinguished...
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  • protection from postherpetic neuralgia. The chickenpox vaccine is approved for infants to prevent chickenpox, which also protects against PHN from a herpes...
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  • practitioner. He showed that shingles was caused by reactivation of the chickenpox virus. Hope-Simpson was born on 31 January 1908, the fourth of five children...
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    primarily used for the treatment of herpes simplex virus infections, chickenpox, and shingles. Other uses include prevention of cytomegalovirus infections...
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    method Based on appearance Differential diagnosis Warts, herpes simplex, chickenpox, folliculitis Prevention Hand washing, not sharing personal items Treatment...
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    immunotherapy, anti-diabetic medication and vaccines against HPV and chickenpox. The company is ranked 71st on the 2022 Fortune 500 and 87th on the 2022...
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  • Georgie finds a dress for her dance but can't attend after contracting chickenpox. Ty leaves to check on Lily when her wedding invitation is returned. Wade...
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    trauma, alcoholism, HIV/AIDS, frostbite, influenza, dengue fever, malaria, chickenpox, plague, hypernatremia, radiation injuries, meningococcal disease, Group...
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    they will." Domenech also published a piece, entitled "How Medical 'Chickenpox Parties' Could Turn The Tide Of The Wuhan Virus", by an individual identified...
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    Rickettsialpox, caused by the bacterium Rickettsia akari and similar to chickenpox, is spread by mice in general, but is very rare and generally mild and...
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  • : 27  Smallpox, Variola major Viral Unvaccinated 30% : 88  Varicella (chickenpox), in newborns Viral Untreated ≈30% Where the mothers develop the disease...
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    carrying diseases; she listed several unconfirmed cases of HIV/AIDS and chickenpox to support the claim. That same month, she urged President Trump to shut...
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    not develop chickenpox. The vaccine also prevents almost all severe cases of the disease. About 25–30% of the people who develop chickenpox after vaccination...
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    early use of the term, in 1973, Peter Moodie remarked that measles and chickenpox, which are usually childhood diseases, may in ‘virgin soil’ epidemics...
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