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From: "Nancee Seifert" <>
Subject: Re: [IADECATU] quarantine
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 19:24:08 -0500
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Hi Rick: How those soldiers must have appreciated you! We just all
expected to have chicken pox as children -- so we just stood our ground and
waited to get it and get it over with.
Isn't it something that kids don't have to have it today because of
immunizations. Thanks, Cordelia S.

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Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [IADECATU] quarantine


>
> In a message dated 11/30/02 6:24:38 PM, writes:
>
> << I remember the quarantine posters that were put on houses when I was
> young. We definitely had them for scarlet fever which was ferociously
> infectious. >>
>
> Jack,
> The same was true in Southern California. My house had a quarantine
notice
> tacked to the front door when I had scarlet fever in the late 1940s, and
> maybe a similar notice when I caught chicken pox after riding the train
home
> from a 1943 Christmas visit to Leon, IA. The train was full of soldiers on
> leave. I bet there were a lot of pocky GIs in January of 1944. Rick
>
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