Jane Beattie and daughters Abigail 11 and Susannah, seven, of Hildenborough Kent Jane Beattie was not overly concerned when she spotted telltale chickenpox blisters developing on her daughter Susannah`s back. Her eldest daughter, Abigail, then aged five, had just returned to school after having chickenpox herself and, although she had been a little cranky, she had otherwise sailed through the illness. Yet, whereas Abigail had had at most 20 spots, Susannah was quickly covered in swathes of angry blisters. `Fresh ones were appearing as I looked at her,` says Jane, 39, a full-time mother from Hildenborough,...
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