Being a child of the 1950s, aside vaccines for polio, TB and smallpox, the rest of the 'common diseases,' mumps, measles, chicken pox, rubella, and whooping cough were in fact, common! Sick days were ...

This color-enhanced Transmission Electron Micrograph (TEM) shows the varicella zoster virus (VZV), a virus in the Herpesviridae family that causes chickenpox in children and shingles (herpes ...