Spotlight: "3 Things You Might Not Know About Chickenpox"
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Parents PACKIt wasn’t until the 1760s that people realized chickenpox and smallpox were different diseases.
The link between chickenpox and shingles was discovered in the 1890s.
Michiaki Takahashi, a Japanese doctor, used virus from his son’s chickenpox blisters to make the vaccine.
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Categories: Parents PACK July 2015, Spotlight
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