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Thanks for your comments all.  They have put my mind at rest, I'm not prepared to travel with her if she is really not well, but as I've already said, she should (if she gets it) be over the worst, she was exposed last weekend, so another week or so and we should know, that will leave us nearly two weeks until we leave, by which time she should be fine.  All my other kids spots have come out within the two weeks. and the little boy she has been in contact with is slowly getting better now.

We are going by ferry to France, flying would only be an option if she was not fit to travel at the start of our holiday.  The others would go as planned and then we would join them later when spots all scabbed over.

Thanks again,

Despite being assured that it's not possible for people to have chicken pox more than once, it is!!  Years ago we babysat a friend's child, with chicken pox, knowing that we'd both suffered from it in the past - David particularly badly, with many little typical spot scars to prove it.  Just less than three weeks later, on our holiday in France, David came down with it again.  This time it was quite mild - and we were in an isolated part of the site so the owners let us stay there - but it made for a bit of a miserable time in the middle of our holiday.