A lot of this was hyperbolic: > But the so-called "childhood diseases" like mumps, rubella, and chickenpox used to kill infants by windrows. Chickenpox is now

A lot of this was hyperbolic: > But the so-called "childhood diseases" like mumps, rubella, and chickenpox used to kill infants by windrows. Chickenpox is nowhere near that deadly. Remember the "Simpsons" episode where Maggie gets the chickenpox and Homer hosts a pox party?