Chicken pox during exams gives parents nightmares ….
Chicken pox is highly contagious and spreads through direct contact. The germs also spread in the air when someone coughs or sneezes. Even adults in the city haven’t been spared.
The chicken pox vaccine, at over Rs1,500, is an expensive but highly effective precaution against chicken pox. “It is a single shot given when the child is one year old and it gives lifelong immunity against chicken pox,” Dr PV Vaidyanathan from Chembur said.
