[Velveeta]

Hopefully, it's chicken pox. Adults who contract chicken pox can become very sick, very quickly. But why would the trucker himself think he had small pox??

[Indie]

The trucker probably thought he had smallpox because he was up on the latest terror info, and because chicken pox rarely strikes adults. Pretty smart guy.

[null and void]

But why would the trucker himself think he had small pox??

Because he's a nutter? (Or he lurks on this thread??? < /kidding>)

[Oorang]

But why would the trucker himself think he had small pox??

Yes, that is the big question. Where has be been, around whom, what was he, or they, doing, to make him suspect smallpox. One doesn't get ill and think they have smallpox without a reason.

[JustPiper]

My youngest girl almost died from chicken pox as a toddler