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Symptoms

  • A single or possibly many blisters filled with pus; easy to pop and  when broken -- leave a reddish raw-looking base (in infants)
  • Itching blister:
  1. Filled with yellow or honey-colored fluid
  2. Oozing and crusting over
  • Rash  may begin as a single spot, but if person scratches, it may spread to other areas
  • Skin lesions on the face, lips, arms, or legs, that spread to other areas
  • Swollen lymph nodes near the infection (lymphadenopathy)

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