When the world was running scared about the monkey-pox virus in 2022, I asked the University of Houston college students I was teaching if they had heard of chickenpox. They stared at me blankly.

We all love chicken but never the pox. The bad news: if you’re not vaccinated against ... Using a clean finger or a cotton swab, smear calamine lotion on all the itchy areas in your body. Do NOT get ...