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Symptoms and timeline of chicken pox infection?
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CHICKENPOX: It takes 2 weeks after exposure to chickenpox to get the disease. It is vesicular skin lesions that turns into scabs, last for1 to 2 weeks. Lesions are very pruritic.
Answered 2/10/2019
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