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Discoveries about chickenpox have been ongoing for over a thousand years:

  • Chickenpox was described clinically by a Persian scholar, Muhammad ibn Zakariya Razi, the ninth century. He didn't differentiate between chickenpox and smallpox, though.

  • Giovanni Filippo of Italy differentiated between chickenpox and scarlet fever in the sixteenth century.

  • In the 17th century, an English physician, Morton, called a disease "chickenpox" that seemed to be a less dangerous form of smallpox.

  • In the 18th century, another Englishman proved that smallpox and chickenpox were different diseases.

  • In the late 19th century, the relationship of chickenpox and herpes zoster was established, and a scientist named Steiner proved that it was an infectious disease.

  • The link between chickenpox and herpes zoster was proven in the 1950s.

  • Live weakened chickenpox vaccine was invented in the 1970s. The vaccine was approved for use in March 1995 in the US.

  • The first anti-herpes medication, acyclovir, was invented in the 1980s.

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