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The vaccine is effective in preventing chickenpox.
Chickenpox is common among children in many countries.
A person who has never had chicken pox and who is exposed to shingles will not get shingles; they will get chicken pox.
Shots for measles, chicken pox and tetanus are required for school-age children in the U.S.
All the children got chickenpox.

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chickenpox | American Dictionary

chickenpox
noun[ U ]
us/ˈtʃɪk·ənˌpɑks/
an infectious disease that causes a slight fever and red spots on the skin

Examples of chickenpox

chickenpox
The high percentage of parents familiar with chickenpox rash was not compatible with the sizable number of parents reporting erroneous histories in their children.
Consent, however, was not associated with a history or severity of chickenpox among the children.
However, further studies are necessary to utilize the correlation between epidemic pattern and meteorological factors for the prediction of chickenpox incidence.
Therefore, focusing on the second peak, the accuracy of the number of patients suffering from chickenpox may be diverse among the prefectures.
Given the mild nature of breakthrough varicella, reduction of morbidity of chickenpox is a more realistic target.
Therefore, in the case of chickenpox, the feature of the second peak might characterize the epidemic pattern of each prefecture.
The feature of the second peak might characterize the epidemic pattern of chickenpox.
Lastly, case n°l had clinical evidence of chickenpox.
The participants' perceptions of the severity of chickenpox were also identified as influencing the decision.
Efficacy, immunogenicity, safety, and use of live attenuated chickenpox vaccine.
The diagnosis of shingles (and of chickenpox and herpes simplex) is made clinically and patients are rarely investigated virologically.
Incidence rates of chickenpox and herpes simplex were examined similarly.
The questionnaire also included introductory information about chickenpox and the vaccination (including an explanation of mild and severe vaccine side effects).
Another four participants described chickenpox as unpleasant and something to be avoided.
They have all been immunized, sixty-nine of them won't get chickenpox, but it may well happen that thirty-one of them will.
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