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Chicken Pox is considered to be a mild viral infection. And the younger the patient is, the milder the disease is. It can be more serious in adults, pregnant woman, or people with other health problems.

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For the majority of patients, the most serious damage that chickenpox can do is create scars from secondarily infected blisters or sores. Rarely, serious complications and death from chickenpox can occur.

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It damages the dermis and sometime the epidermis of the skin.

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Long term effects are pretty much only scars.


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