ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case study of a 32-year-old woman at 27 weeks' gestation, presented to the maternal and foetal assessment unit of a large hospital with vaginal bleeding. It provides a discussion on clinical management, prevention, epidemiology, biology, and pathology of this case. In this case, it included her pregnant mother and other patients and staff at the hospital. Although chickenpox is usually a mild illness, immunosuppressed patients, pregnant women, and neonates have an increased risk of severe disease. If they are not immune from past infection or immunisation, they may develop severe varicella-zoster infection after this exposure. A case of chickenpox is infectious from 48 hours before the rash appears until all skin lesions are crusted over. In this case, in the 24 hours before the rash appeared, the child had been in the antenatal waiting room with pregnant patients and in the maternity ward, where there were pregnant women and postnatal women with neonates.
