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"&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img alt=\"0128_barbara_walters\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2013/01/28/0128-barbara-walters-1.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barbara Walters&lt;/strong&gt; has seen it all in her career, except for one thing -- CHICKEN POX ... until now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 83-year-old news legend announced ... she's officially suffering from a case of the scratchies ... roughly 75 years after most people catch the viral infection. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Walters -- who was already recovering from a head injury she suffered during Inauguration weekend -- was obviously absent from \"The View\" this morning ... so Whoopi broke the news. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;\"We want to give you an update on Barbara,\" Goldberg said ... \"You all know that she fell and cut her head 10 days ago, and then was running a temperature, but it turns out it is all the result of a delayed childhood.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;\"Barbara has the chicken pox. She'd never had it as a child. So now she's been told to rest, she's not allowed any visitors. and we're telling you, Barbara, no scratching,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whoopi added, \"We love you. We miss you. We just don't want to hug you.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a class=\"lightbox-link\" href=\"http://www.tmz.com/photos/2011/12/15/4212-barbara-walters-pretty-pictures/\" target=\"_blank\"&gt;&lt;img alt=\"0121_BARBARA_WALTERS_well_footer\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2013/01/28/0121-barbara-walters-well-footer-1.jpg\" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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