Chicken Pox Research Paper

The Chicken Pox Virus: Knowledge and Manners of Control 1

Chicken Pox Virus and the Essential Logistics
Tamika Murray
Grand Canyon University

The Chicken Pox Virus: Knowledge and Manners of Control 2
Chickenpox is a communicable disease which mainly affects children, but the virus can also affect adults in more rare cases in today’s society. That is, the varicella-zoster virus which brings on chicken pox usually comes to children under the age of 12, and the virus is usually spread through contact at school or in extracurricular activities where there is close contact among children. The virus moves quickly into the body of children and also transmits very quickly to other children as a virus should.
The virus in children, “often starts with a fever, headache, sore throat, or stomachache. These symptoms may last for a few days, with fever in the 101°-102°F (38.3°-38.8°C) range.” (Lamprecht, 2010, p.1) That is, the fever quickly moves on to itchy spots as the virus moves along inside the body. The mode of transmission is close contact with other children, and the virus is not considered to be anything more than an incidence. In fact, children which are provided an immunization shit will be less prone to have the virus infect their body, and they are also a barrier for continued transmission since they cannot catch the
A school nurse has the personal reasonability to let parents know when the chicken pox virus is infecting children in the school, and the community nurse has the additional responsibility of keeping records on the amount of chicken pox infections per year as well as infections per area. This will allow the

The Chicken Pox Virus: Knowledge and Manners of Control 5 community to know the limits of the virus and how well the community is coming along to cease chicken pox from the children in the community.
There are a number of different community as well as federal agencies which list resources and assistance guides for people online as well as in pamphlet format. One of these would be the Center for Disease control which lists a vast amount of resources on their web site, the organization is a, “federal agency with a goal of protecting the health and safety of people in the US. In their "Health Topics A-Z" you 'll find a fact sheet on chickenpox covering everything from treatment to vaccination.” (CDC, 2010, p.1) They provide basic answers to questions as well as information on how to get immunized for the chicken pox virus, where to get the shot, how to get assistance if there are economic barriers, and the social cost of chicken