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Buncombe County officials report increase in chickenpox, whoopin
g cough cases
By: Masked Man Date: January 5, 2026, 8:21 pm
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Buncombe County officials report increase in chickenpox,
whooping cough cases
BUNCOMBE COUNTY, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Buncombe County
Public Health’s Communicable Disease (CD) Team is monitoring an
increase in chickenpox and whooping cough cases.
In mid-November, county Public Health staff identified a
chickenpox outbreak at a private school in the western part of
the county due to a high number of unvaccinated persons...
PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Buncombe Co. officials report increase in
chickenpox cases
Officials have also reported an outbreak of whooping cough at a
public high school in the Swannanoa/Black Mountain area, with 17
linked cases and potential spread into a neighboring public
middle school. Officials also reported a large outbreak of
influenza A in the same population.
RELATED: North Carolina reports first child flu death this
season
Officials said that the state reported its highest number of
whooping cough cases in 70 years in 2024, with this year’s cases
already surpassing that total. Buncombe County and surrounding
counties have seen an increase in whooping cough cases for the
past several years.
LINK:
HTML https://www.foxcarolina.com/2025/12/22/buncombe-county-officials-report-increase-chickenpox-whooping-cough-cases/
COMMENT:
I know first hand how bad symptoms of chicken pox are... it's
horrible.. itchy like crazy.. kids wanna tear their skin off ..
gets everywhere even in genitals..it's maddening.. it was so bad
back when I went to school that some kids talked about how
parents tried to relieve their kids of the agony of chicken pox
by using turpentine (WARNING: don't use turpentine) on the itchy
blisters. I say this so that press doesn't downplay how bad it
really feels to have chickenpox. Imagine wanting to tear your
skin off because you are going feverisshly insane and the itches
are also inside you...
... do not downplay, underestimate, or be insensitive to how
truly horrendous and miserable it is to be inflicted with these
illnesses and diseases. Words cannot describe or do justice to
this kind of suffering illness and diseases inflict upon us!
Often the press fails to be very descriptive and only uses words
like "itchy," "runny nose," "feverish," & "uncomfortable" when
in reality these words don't really capture how bad illnesses
and diseases really feel. We often hear about the symptoms
illness from the press but rarely in the voice of the victims.
I'm 55 now I remember Chicken pox in elementary school really
well and it was really horrible and those stories about parents
trying to use turpentine to take their kids suffering away were
true ..that's how bad it itched!...
...People deserve to know for the sake of the children that
happened back in my day of surviving chicken pox as a child. Not
trying to scare anybody but those are the facts those are my
memories. It was bad when a chicken pox outbreak occurred ..very
bad. kids trying to pull and scratch there own skin off and
often chicken pox would be inside their throats and orifices and
that's what we face during outbreaks. Children trying to Gouge
out or scratch oozing Chickenpox on their lips and on an
eyelids making you blink over and over burned like fire and
endlessly itchy.. the itch never went away . Perhaps there are
better treatments nowadays for chickenpox that I am unaware of
that will console the reader who has never had chicken pox. I
wouldn't know. All I can tell you is what I know.
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