DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 56-year-old male who never had the chicken pox. When the first of my children was born, I had blood tests done to see if I’d ever been exposed. I had not, so I received the ...
If you hear that chicken pox is going around your child’s school, you may not worry because everyone gets chicken pox, right? You’ve probably even heard that some people purposely expose their ...
CHICKENPOX IS A HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS DISEASE THAT MANY PEOPLE CAN REMEMBER GETTIN ITCHING AND SPOTS WHEN IT WAS GONE UP UNTIL THE 90S THERE WAS NOTHING TO STOP PEOPLE FROM GETTING CHICKEN POX. BUT IN ...
Before the chicken pox (varicella) vaccine was introduced in 1995, kids could count on experiencing the illness as a kind of childhood milestone — the virus is super-contagious and spreads around ...