The virus which causes chicken pox, varicella zoster, is passed on through close contact with an individual who has ongoing chickenpox. Touching the spots or pox when they weep will pass the virus on. Chickenpox is also spread in fine droplets of moisture, which contain the virus. The droplets are produced when the infected person coughs or sneezes, another person then inhales these droplets and may become infected.
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Chickenpox is a highly contagious viral disease that causes hundreds of itchy, fluid-filled blisters on the skin that burst and form crusts. The disease usually affects children, though adults may become infected as well. It is transmitted by direct contact with a rash or through contaminated droplets in air or moisture, usually spread by coughing or sneezing. The varicella-zoster virus (VZV) responsible for chickenpox is one of eight herpes viruses known to infect humans and is found throughout the world.
Varicella is transfered through touching the blisters of an infected individual.
Well, when you have chicken pox, there's no real way of getting rid of it. You have to let it take it's course. Most people get it worse than others, and most people get it as a child. However, when you have chicken pox once, you can't get it again. There is a realted disease, though, called Shingles. It is very painful, and it usually affects older people.
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There is no chickenpox RNA; chickenpox is a DNA virus.
A person with a history of chickenpox or history of chickenpox vaccine will typically have a positive antibody test for chickenpox.
Chickenpox vaccine is useful. It reduces the risk of chickenpox, of complications, hospitalizations, and deaths from chickenpox, and of shingles.
Chickenpox is not an autoimmune disease. Chickenpox is a viral communicable disease.
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Yes, you can give chickenpox vaccine in the same area as other vaccines.
Yes, anybody can get chickenpox.
Chickenpox is an illness. It has no advantages.
Chickenpox rates have decreased 90% since the use of chickenpox vaccine.
Pandas don't get chickenpox. Chickenpox affects humans and a few other primates.
There is no "chickenpox procedure." There is a diagnosis code for chickenpox, but no CPT code. There are CPT codes for chickenpox titer, culture, and immunization.
If you had chickenpox as a child, there is no special care required if you are pregnant and were exposed to chickenpox.