The hidden cost of varicella

A 5-month-old boy with known congenital varicella syndrome presented to our hospital emergency department with generalised herpes zoster (shingles).

1 Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of General Medicine, Royal Childrens Hospital, Melbourne, VIC.
2 Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC.
3 Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC.

Correspondence: joshua.wolf@rch.org.au

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