Somebody needs to get on this fast. Dawn used the word "deadly" and "fatal." Chickenpox isn't either one, usually.
Could be related?
possible related case here,
Dateline 31 March 2002
UMERKOT, March 31 (PNS): Twelve children died in three days due to an outbreak of mysterious disease, resembling measles, in Umerkot and Golarchi. According to details, children in a village near Golarchi chuck no.64 are suffering strange disease, which appears to resemble measles. The mysterious disease has already claimed lives of 12 innocent children while several more are still said to be suffering.
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Dawn said "deadly" and "fatal" as part of their generic description of smallpox. There's nothing in the article that indicates that anybody has died in this outbreak; if this were actually smallpox, people would have died and I assume the article would have mentioned deaths. So I do not believe that it is smallpox. (Smallpox would also be spreading faster, if my understanding is correct.)
Of course, I do agree with you that somebody should get on this fast. Speculation is insufficient; the disease outbreak must be investigated and the cause determined. It could be simple chickenpox, as several people have surmised, but it could also be monkeypox or camelpox, conceivably associated with a biowarfare program. (And it also might be something completely different, not a smallpox-like disease at all. We really don't know.)