Local stories reflecting the decade include a small pox outbreak, the Promettes on the seafront and Teddy Boy fashion filtering down from London.
People may also catch chicken pox from direct exposure to a person with an active shingles rash if they have not been immunized by vaccination or a previous bout of chicken pox.
If the U.S. government thinks the possibility of a small-pox attack by terrorists is real enough to perhaps vaccinate 500, 000 healthcare and safety workers so they can respond to such an assault, why shouldn't the rest of us be inoculated as well?
And he joins us today to talk about what we've learned during a decade of chicken pox vaccinations.
Since she reportedly never contracted chicken pox as a child, she was at higher risk for developing severe symptoms and complications including pneumonia.
Dr. SPIESEL: Once you get chicken pox, for the rest of your life you'll carry it in a latent form, the chicken pox virus.
And there were an average of, oh, I don't know, something like over 140 kids a year who died from chicken pox.
For children, roughly 9 out of 10 children vaccinated with a single dose of the chicken pox vaccine will develop immunity against chicken pox.
Merck's vaccine is a supercharged version of the chicken pox vaccine.
But now the company that makes the vaccine has been testing, and is now marketing a more potent version of the chicken pox vaccine that's designed exclusively for adults to prevent them from ever having shingles.
Her run-in with the apparition took place when she was a young girl in bed with the chicken pox.
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Pox viruses do, indeed, carry a range of genes that bear a striking resemblance to those of their hosts.
And so somebody would break out in chicken pox, and so there'd be a party to expose people.
Dr. SPIESEL: Well, chicken pox is, and has been, traditionally a fairly mild illness, with occasional quite serious consequences.
Usually, the symptoms are at first so similar to those of chicken pox that parents simply wait for them to disappear without consulting a physician.
The chicken pox virus actually belongs to the herpes family of viruses, and produces a blistering rash that erupts in various stages eventually forming crusts and healing over a period of 7-10 days.
Sick Weather is a similar project that can pull from Facebook and Twitter to map and show animations of contagious illnesses such as chicken pox, colds and whooping cough, as well as other issues like allergies, stress and depression.
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