How a Vaccine Slowed the Spread of Chicken Pox
How a Vaccine Slowed the Spread of Chicken Pox The highly contagious disease dates to ancient times and spread easily in households and classroomsâuntil the development of a vaccine. Author: blackjake/Getty Images The highly contagious disease dates to ancient times and spread easily in households and classroomsâuntil the development of a vaccine. Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus that leads to itchy skin eruptions, which are sometimes compared to a “dew drop on a rose petal.” Until the development of a chickenpox vaccine in the lat...