Archive for October, 2006

Children and Scabies

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Of all the demographics around the world, children are the group with the single highest risk for contracting scabies.  Every day, millions of children wake up, get ready and head off for a day at school.  Once they arrive, they spend the day in a relatively small area with many of their peers.  In this […]

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Shingles

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

Although almost all cases of shingles occur in adults, shingles is actually caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox in children.  The virus that causes both chickenpox and shingles is the varicella-zoster virus.  In eighty percent of people, the varicella-zoster virus causes them to have a case of chickenpox as a child and then […]

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