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Virobis (N<sup>1</sup> N<sup>1</sup> Anhydrobis (Beta - Hydroxyethyl) Biguanide Hydrochloride) in Chicken-Pox*


Peter V. Suckling

Abstract

Chicken-pox (varicella) carries no conferred neonatal immunity, nor is it preventable  by the injection of exposed and suscepticle subjects with gamma-globulin. Once  established in an institution it is extremely difficult to eradicate, particularly as new  cases are always being introduced by admission from a  community in which epidemics  are frequent. For some 3 years this exanthem has been endemic in a Cape Town  convalescent home for Coloured infants and children, who are malnourished and who  have suffered infections, especially  pneumonia and gastro-enteritis. The purpose of the  Home is to provide an adequate diet in the recovery phase and to ensure final discharge to their homes of children in a satisfactory nutritional state. Though the purpose is to provide adequate nutrition it is often necessary to treat minor illnesses, but in view of the poor resistance of these malnourished children, chickenpox has often been of a severe nature and necessitated transfer to an infectious disease hospital.

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