Chicken pox

Chicken pox is transmitted to others by direct person-to person contact, or airborne spread by sneezes, coughs and touching the open lesions caused by the disease.
Symptoms include a sudden fever, feeling tired and weak and the appearance of a rash of small blisters. The disease is often more serious in adults than in children.
If your child has these symptoms the recommendation is for the child to remain at home until one week after the eruption of the blisters or until the blisters are dry.