I was newly pregnant with my fourth child the summer that the chicken pox was running rampant in my neighborhood. August is ...

When the world was running scared about the monkey-pox virus in 2022, I asked the University of Houston college students I was teaching if they had heard of chickenpox. They stared at me blankly. None ...

Chickenpox is a common and highly infectious disease caused by the Herpes varicella virus. After an incubation period of 14 to 21 days the illness starts with fever and generally feeling unwell.

Laziness is not entirely to blame—I also dislike the feeling of putting on clothes or getting into my clean sheets after applying greasy body lotion. Formulated with shea butter and shea oil ...

Monrovia – The National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) has launched an investigation into reports of a pox-like disease among inmates at a prison facility in Greenville, Sinoe County. The ...

Although similar in name and in the formation of a rash, blisters, and scabs, variola belongs to a different virus family than the virus that causes the common childhood illness chicken pox. Variola ...

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Chickenpox is a highly contagious viral infection that causes a skin rash, starting with red bumps and progressing to blisters and scabs. It may also cause symptoms such as fever, headache, and ...

Dermatology Nursing. 2008;20(1):47-49,53. 1. Impetigo is a bacterial infection of the skin which occurs in two forms: bullous and nonbullous, the former caused by S. aureus, the latter by either S.