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He should ask her if she has had chickenpox in childhood.
If she has had the infection in childhood she is likely to be protected from getting it again.
If the status is not known it would be safer to avoid seeing her for 3 weeks as incubation period before symptoms can extend to 3 weeks after exposure to chickenpox virus.
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He should ask her if she has had chickenpox in childhood.
If she has had the infection in childhood she is likely to be protected from getting it again.
If the status is not known it would be safer to avoid seeing her for 3 weeks as incubation period before symptoms can extend to 3 weeks after exposure to chickenpox virus.
Feel free to ask any follow up question.
Do take a moment to honour my work and time by rating my answer hopefully five stars.
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