St. Mungo's has reported an increase in patients being admitted with severe cases of dragon pox. Thirteen wizards and witches have been diagnosed with the disease in the past week and a half, and it appears that the pox is spreading at an alarming rate.

Dragon Pox is contagious and while there is a cure (developed by Gunhilda of Gorsemoor in 1601), it is imperative that the victim is treated immediately. If you come in contact with someone who has dragon pox, please use extreme caution. Symptoms take at least three days to fully reveal themselves, and by then the victim may have spread the pox throughout wherever they have visited. Your local apothecaries have temporary cures, but if a full blown case of Dragon Pox hits your home, please head to St. Mungo's for treatment so that the disease can be quarantined.

If symptoms are left alone for a period of time, dragon pox is still a very dangerous, and fatal disease. The elderly, children, and women who are pregnant should be very cautious about who they come in contact with in the next few weeks while the pox is contained.

Symptoms
• Bumps that can leave scars.
• Fever, weakeness, itching, nausea, headache, sore throat
• Hallucinations are known to occur
• Green-and-purple rash or lasting greenish tinge to skin.
• Sparks from nostrils with sneezing.
• From the initial diagnosis patients are quarantined for at least four days before being announced they are no longer contagious
• The greenish tinge lasts for the earliest two weeks, even if the patient is no longer contagious