Chickenpox affects dozens in Brooklyn Orthodox Jewish community

At least 75 children and infants have become ill with varicella, or chickenpox since March in the Orthodox Jewish community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, according to New York City health officials. The children, with an average age of three, were mostly unvaccinated (72 percent) or undervaccinated (14 percent). Chickenpox is a common, usually benign childhood disease caused by the ["]