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  1. More than half of #chickenpox #diagnoses are wrong, study finds
    #PublicHealth researchers in Minnesota found that 55% of people diagnosed with chickenpox based on their symptoms were actually negative for the #varicellazoster #virus, the virus that causes chickenpox. Lab testing showed that some of the #patients were actually infected with an #enterovirus, which can cause a rash, or the #herpessimplex virus 1, which causes cold sores.
    arstechnica.com/science/2024/0

  2. More than half of #chickenpox #diagnoses are wrong, study finds
    #PublicHealth researchers in Minnesota found that 55% of people diagnosed with chickenpox based on their symptoms were actually negative for the #varicellazoster #virus, the virus that causes chickenpox. Lab testing showed that some of the #patients were actually infected with an #enterovirus, which can cause a rash, or the #herpessimplex virus 1, which causes cold sores.
    arstechnica.com/science/2024/0

  3. The word's oldest living confederate widow just got rolled back into the Senate...after ENCEPHALITIS....and she's, what, two weeks older than Biden?

    #Feinstein #VaricellaZoster #Gerontocracy