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More than half of chickenpox diagnoses are wrong, study finds
- blitzar 3y ago[flagged]
- nohuck13 3y agoNo, of the 420 suspected chickenpox cases, 20 (4.7%) had herpes. 157 had chicken pox, 47 had enterovirus, and 194 were negative for all four viruses tested.
- justinator 3y agoWhere are these kids getting herpes from? And how do you misdiagnose something that has symptoms local to an area with all-other chicken pox?
- smegger001 3y agoHerpes can be passed by skin to skin contact in fact it used to be known as wrestlers rash
- Solvency 3y agoand then there are the unlucky few like me, who actually did have chicken pox as a kid, and now 40 years later have my first shingles incident. gotta love modern medicine.