Episode 15: Chickenpox

HealthHits by Dr Tom Fisher

May 29, 201716:49Science & Medicine

Hello and welcome to the Health Hits podcast. This week we talk all about that miserable rite of passage that all children in the UK go through: Chickenpox. We'll talk about how it affects us and why, the latest controve...

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