Origin of Chickenpox

Chickenpox has being believed to have been first discovered by Giovanni Filippo during the 1500s in Italy. In the 1600s, a English physician named Richard Morton gave the name chickenpox just because it is the milder version of smallpox. It is believed that in the 1700s, another English physician named William Heberden, was the first physician to prove that chickenpox was actually different from smallpox.

Countries that had been infected by Chickenpox in 2010