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'''Chicken pox''' is a highly contagious illness caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV). It usually starts with vesicular skin rash mainly on the body and head rather than at the periphery and becomes itchy, raw pockmarks, which mostly heal without scarring.
 
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|name=Chicken pox
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|symptoms=*Rash
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*Pockmarks
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{{Quote|… and take the iodine upstairs to Martha, Billy Stubbs has been picking his scabs and Eric Whalley's oozing all over his sheets — chicken pox on top of everything else.|[[Cole|Mrs. Cole]] to one of her helpers at [[Wool's Orphanage]] in [[1930s|1938]]|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}
 
'''Chicken pox''' is a highly contagious viral infection. It usually starts with skin rash, mainly on the torso and head rather than the extremities, and becomes itchy and raw pockmarks, which mostly heal without scarring.
   
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A subject who has had chicken pox has the virus in a dormant form in the body's nerve tissues, but it can be reactivated in later life in a different form known as shingles (herpes zoster).
By the time [[Tom Riddle]] was eleven, [[Billy Stubbs]] and [[Eric Whalley]] had chicken pox.
 
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In [[1930s|1938]], [[Billy Stubbs]] and [[Eric Whalley]] developed chicken pox at [[Wool's Orphanage]]. [[Cole|Mrs. Cole]], the matron, told one of her helpers to take the [[iodine]] to [[Martha]], so that she could disinfect their pockmarks.<ref name="HBP13">''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' - Chapter 13 (''The Secret Riddle'')</ref>
   
 
==Appearances==
 
==Appearances==
*''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]''
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*''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'' {{Mention}}
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[[Category:Wool's Orphanage]]

Revision as of 03:50, 4 November 2015

"… and take the iodine upstairs to Martha, Billy Stubbs has been picking his scabs and Eric Whalley's oozing all over his sheets — chicken pox on top of everything else."
Mrs. Cole to one of her helpers at Wool's Orphanage in 1938[src]

Chicken pox is a highly contagious viral infection. It usually starts with skin rash, mainly on the torso and head rather than the extremities, and becomes itchy and raw pockmarks, which mostly heal without scarring.

A subject who has had chicken pox has the virus in a dormant form in the body's nerve tissues, but it can be reactivated in later life in a different form known as shingles (herpes zoster).

In 1938, Billy Stubbs and Eric Whalley developed chicken pox at Wool's Orphanage. Mrs. Cole, the matron, told one of her helpers to take the iodine to Martha, so that she could disinfect their pockmarks.[1]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Chapter 13 (The Secret Riddle)