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Where did the Chicken pox get its name?

April 26, 2017chicken pox

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Where did the Chicken pox get its name?

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Chicken pox got its name from the red spots, which look like chick-peas (sort of like seeds) on skin. The Latin word for chick-peas is cicer, so the infection became known as Chicken pox.