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What are the serious complications from chickenpox?
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Serious complications from chickenpox include bacterial infections which can involve many sites of the body including the skin, tissues
under the skin, bone, lungs (pneumonia), joints and the blood. Other serious complications are due directly to the virus infection and include viral pneumonia, bleeding problems and infection of the brain (encephalitis).
Many people are not aware that, before a vaccine was available, there were approximately 11,000 hospitalizations and 100 deaths from chickenpox in the U.S. every year . One child and one adult died each week.
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