‘All these rashes’: chickenpox surges in Gaza camps

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Eight-year-old Ruba Saadeh spends her days confined to the tent she shares with her family in Gaza, her body dotted with inflamed red blisters as chickenpox sweeps through overcrowded camps like the one they live in. Doctors and displaced families in Gaza say the highly contagious disease has surged in recent months as war has forced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians into cramped tent camps with no clean water for hygiene. “The doctor told us she needs daily cleaning and should be isolated for 20 days,” Ruba’s 19-year-old sister Alaa told AFP.

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