How to Use chickenpox in a Sentence

chickenpox

noun
  • And what does all of this mean for younger generations who have grown up with the chickenpox vaccine?
    — Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Those who suffered through chickenpox as kids likely remember the agony of its itchy rash.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The virus can lie dormant in our nerves for decades after a bout of chickenpox, only to be reawakened by stress.
    — Cassie Shortsleeve, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Apr. 2026
  • In practice, that may be combined with a shot against chickenpox for older children.
    — Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • These include the herpes viruses that cause chickenpox and shingles.
    — Scott E. Solomon, STAT, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The infection is caused by the varicella-zoster virus — the same virus behind chickenpox.
    — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Apr. 2026
  • People who have had chickenpox are at risk of developing the burning, itchy rash years or decades later.
    — Lindsey Leake, NBC news, 28 June 2026
  • The virus stays dormant in the body after a person has fully recovered from chickenpox.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 7 Dec. 2025
  • One example is shingles, which is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus behind chickenpox.
    — Cassie Shortsleeve, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The varicella-zoster virus causes both chickenpox and shingles.
    — Lindsey Leake, NBC news, 28 June 2026
  • For the rest of us — especially anyone over 50 who once had chickenpox — the virus is still there, waiting.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2026
  • It’s also known as herpes zoster, and refers to a painful rash caused by the reactivation of the virus that causes chickenpox.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Anyone who has had chickenpox is at risk of shingles, characterized by a painful, blistering rash.
    — Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Shingles can spread to people who have never had chickenpox, have not been vaccinated, or to those whose immune system is weak.
    — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 6 Apr. 2026
  • In the teen’s case, five large keloids abruptly burst from her chickenpox scars, breaking out in different places on her body—on her right jaw, chest, abdomen, and right flank.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
  • In addition to the chickenpox and whooping cough vaccines, Jhonde got one dose of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine as a baby.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 1 Nov. 2025
  • While keloids remain a menace, chickenpox has an effective prevention.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, which initially causes chickenpox but then lingers in the body, staying mostly dormant in nerve cells.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
  • The first was a patient with chickenpox or varicella encephalitis, a virus that causes brain inflammation.
    — Jonny Williams, The Providence Journal, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Hib, pneumococcal conjugate, polio, measles, mumps and rubella, as well as chickenpox.
    — Nathaniel Weixel, The Hill, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The comparison is pretty accurate—shingles is caused by the same virus as chickenpox, varicella zoster, which can stay dormant for decades after those itchy red spots are gone.
    — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 7 May 2026
  • Her doctors noted that the teen was otherwise healthy after recovering from the chickenpox several weeks prior.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
  • This includes vaccines that protect against viruses like chickenpox, hepatitis B and meningitis.
    — Jared Gans, The Hill, 3 Nov. 2025
  • She had been seen at a clinic for the infection, where her chickenpox (varicella) case was confirmed, and she was treated with the anti-viral medication acyclovir.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
  • When dormant viruses wake up Shingles is a direct consequence of a previous chickenpox infection.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 23 Feb. 2026
  • On a practical level, Jhaveri said getting kids vaccinated for chickenpox means fewer sick kids having to miss class and fewer parents having to miss work to take care of their ill children.
    — Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
  • But 4 of the childhood vaccines — against meningitis, chickenpox and hepatitis B — are regulated by the state department of health.
    — Kerry Sheridan, NPR, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Symptoms of chickenpox typically appear between 10 and 21 days after being exposed to the virus.
    — Mike Darnay, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Vaccination has for decades been a tried-and-true (and largely uncontroversial) way to protect children against illnesses like polio, chickenpox, and pneumonia.
    — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The others — for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), rotavirus, flu and chickenpox — do not.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 26 Dec. 2025

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