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Chicken pox is a very infectious disease which particularly affects primary school age children. It is caused by the same virus as shingles and can be caught from a patient suffering from shingles as well as somebody with chicken pox. Infection is spread from child to child by droplet infection — in other words by the patient’s breath while coughing or sneezing. This is the same as the method of spread of a common cold.
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Birch, D. (1985). Common Infectious Diseases Affecting Children. In: Teacher Information Pack 4: Physical. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09003-7_13
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