How to Use chicken pox in a Sentence

chicken pox

noun

• And unlike the chicken pox, adults tend to have a milder form of hand, foot, and mouth than kids.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 26 July 2018
• Jack’s grand plan to help Child Kevin deal with his chicken pox is having him growl like a tiger.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 17 Oct. 2017
• Shingles — the adult version of chicken pox — is no fun.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 6 Apr. 2018
• It's caused by the varicella-zoster virus, the same one behind chicken pox.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 26 Oct. 2017
• Hoyen described a nurse who was exposed to chicken pox.
  — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 16 June 2021
• And chicken pox can cause shingles later in life, Galiasatos says.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune, 8 May 2022
• His body went numb after receiving the chicken pox and TDAP vaccine in each arm.
  — oregonlive, 10 Aug. 2021
• Many vaccines, including those for measles and chicken pox, work this way.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2020
• But this is simply a part of the immune response to the vaccine and isn’t the same as actually getting sick with the chicken pox.
  — Anna Borges, SELF, 26 Aug. 2019
• The same virus that causes chicken pox causes shingles.
  — Courtney Schmidt, Health.com, 14 Oct. 2020
• Shingles is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox (varicella zoster virus).
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2018
• That would indicate that the virus is endemic—and manageable—much like the chicken pox.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 2 June 2021
• Many people use sea moss to treat everything from asthma to chicken pox.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2022
• The Delta variant, as contagious as chicken pox, is spreading fast.
  — ABC News, 1 Aug. 2021
• The mumps and chicken pox outbreaks triggered a hunger strike by detainees in March and led to calls for congressional oversight.
  — Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, 9 Dec. 2019
• Itching is contagious, and not only when one party has the chicken pox.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2012
• Ramsay Hunt syndrome is caused by the varicella zoster virus, the same virus that causes chicken pox in children and shingles in adults.
  — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Well, 3 Mar. 2023
• Ramsay Hunt is triggered by the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes shingles, which is in turn caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2022
• According to Mayo Clinic, the syndrome is more common in people over the age of 60 and is triggered by the same virus that causes chicken pox and shingles.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 10 June 2022
• But after a case of chicken pox is resolved, the virus can still reactivate years later.
  — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 14 June 2022
• But the varicella vaccine is a much better option than chicken pox.
  — Nina Shapiro, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• Varicella The varicella vaccine protects you against the scourge that is chicken pox.
  — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 26 Aug. 2019
• Since Afghans began arriving in late-August, there have been nine Covid cases, as well as a very small number of mumps, chicken pox, and norovirus cases, the sources said.
  — Oren Liebermann, CNN, 24 Sep. 2021
• Besides polio, there’s smallpox, chicken pox, measles and mumps, among others.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2021
• Your body’s immune system would get recharged every time you were exposed to somebody with chicken pox, which normally would be your kids.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 14 June 2022
• Before the vaccine, between three and four million people in the U.S. contracted chicken pox every year.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
• Going back for decades now, around 91 or 92 percent of U.S. toddlers have received their shots for measles, mumps and rubella—as well as those for chicken pox, polio and hepatitis B.
  — Daniel Engber, Wired, 2 Sep. 2020
• Anyone who has had chicken pox in their lifetime can develop shingles.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2018
• The varicella-zoster virus remains in the body long after chicken pox has passed and can later reactivate as shingles.
  — Ebony Williams, ajc, 11 June 2022
• Her mother and her siblings had intentionally exposed their children to the virus so that all the cousins, all 12 of them from ages six months to her, the oldest at 10, could contract chicken pox and get it over with.
  — Yalitza Ferreras, SFChronicle.com, 9 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024