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Chicken pox: Symptoms and treatment
Chicken pox is caused by the varicella virus and is considered a childhood disease. Prior to the 1995 introduction of a chicken pox vaccine, several million children got chicken pox each year in the US.
Parents used to deliberately expose their children to another infected child to ensure infection before adulthood, when complications are more likely and can be more severe. However, complications do
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