If a person comes in contact with a person with chicken pox, then he also has a high risk of getting smallpox. In India, this disease is called Mata. Let's know what is the reason behind this.

Isolated chickenpox cases are being observed, with a potential rise expected during school vacations, despite mass ...

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They both have “pox” in their names ... it killed more than 300 million people. 3. Doctors can tell chickenpox and smallpox apart. While they may look similar to the untrained eye, smallpox ...

Most people infected with chicken pox simply feel unwell — with symptoms including an itchy, blister-like rash, fever, headache and fatigue — but some develop serious complications.

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