Local mechanic I know just came down with the chicken pox. He is around 50 years old. Illegals?
I had a colleague (we’re teachers) who contracted chicken pox at age 40 from a student and almost died. He was in the hospital for six weeks and then off for another six week recovering.
He told me later that he wanted to die during that time because he was so sick and miserable.
We worked (at that time) in a school with a lot of immigrant students from Central America.
I’ve had the chicken pox four times. The first time was miserable. Each time it gets milder.
Had the measles as an adult too. The worst headache I’ve ever ever had. The mumps were worse.
Never got sick as a kid. My mother must have quarantined me.
Nah... Chicken pox is highly contageous by contact. If he had contact with an infected child, that's all it take. Or another possibility, if he never had chicken pox, and came into contact with an adult who has shingles, that would do it as well.
But as you get older, chicken pox does become a greater health risk.
Mark