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cryzingerlast Tuesday at 11:35 PM1 replyview on HN

Measles and chickenpox aren't even similar pathogens. Chickenpox is more closely related to herpes!

(That's also why chickenpox can come back later in life as shingles, the same way cold sores recur... because shingles is reactivated chickenpox, it's not a "relabeled" virus...)


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dennis_jeeves2last Tuesday at 11:54 PM

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