Word: pox
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...clearinghouse in Minnetonka, Minn., some 500,000 American children are sick enough to stay home from school or day care. While some of those kids are seriously ill, a fairly large percentage simply need to be isolated to prevent the spread of minor illnesses such as pinkeye and chicken pox. Or they need one more fever-free day after a bout of flu or strep throat before returning to school or day care. "In a perfect world, you wouldn't give it a thought. You'd stay home," says Gail Johnson, immediate past president of the National Association for Sick...
...first year I was here was one of those years when [my children] first got the chicken pox, and then they got pneumonia," she said. "I was really worried that I was going to go through the 50 hours--that [additional time] is something I could have used," Bruzelius said...
...George Washington chopped down his fatheris cherry tree, threw a silver dollar clear across the Potomac River, and had a nasty case of the pox - otherwise known as syphilis...
...Kilmer has a distended sac on his elbow, Leonardo DiCaprio suffers from pimple outbreaks regularly, Britney Spears had a mondo cyst underneath her lip during the cover shoot for "Baby One More Time," Marky Mark's got a third nipple, Liv Tyler and Jennifer Love Hewitt both have chicken pox scars, the list just keeps going. Need a reading period self-esteem booster? Check it out for another lesson in showbiz magic...