Chicken Pox Chicken pox is a common childhood disease that is highly contagious and is seen in children aged between 2 and 6 years old‚ although they can be of any age. Occasionally adults can contract chicken pox renamed as shingles‚ with more server symptoms. Chicken pox infections occur year round‚ but most likely occur during the winter and spring months. Some illnesses are infectious. This means that they are passes from one person to another. Chicken pox is an infectious disease and in some
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EPIDEMOLOGY Chicken pox (varicella) is a communicable disease where the patients presents with itchy red spots and or blisters that form over the body. This disease is common in children‚ but not uncommon for adults to contact the disease. The populations with compromised immune systems‚ like pregnant women‚ infants and adolescents and adults‚ have a hard time fighting the infection. Due to the extreme contagious nature of the disease patient may need to limit contact with the community. Children
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the disease small pox. Small pox is a highly contagious disease characterized by a fever and small spots which leave permanently disfiguring scars in the form of pits. If it is not treated immediately it results in death‚ even a patient does survive the disease the skin is permanently disfigured. The disease was first identified in 1122 BC in Egypt and quickly spread through out the eastern world and eventually‚ through colonization‚ spread to all parts of the world. Small pox still greatly effects
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September‚ 13 2012 Center for Disease Control‚ As a lab assistant for this organization‚ I have worked on the SCHOOLPOX case intensely for the last week and a half. This case was a mock trial of a terrorist attack of disease or more recently the swine flu scare. It was feared that an attack would release infectious bugs into our communities and cause illness. To catch you up to date with what this SCHOOLPOX trial is‚ I can explain exactly what this sickness is. SCHOOLPOX has a three day
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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
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contagious diseases (5). Ninety to ninety-five percent of the people exposed to the virus will develop it within twenty-one days (5). The term chickenpox came from chickpea‚ which is a member of the bean family and resembles the look of the swollen pox‚ or from the Old English gican‚ meaning "to itch" (7). Before chickenpox was classified as a disease it was confused with other similar diseases such as smallpox‚ measles‚ German measles‚ and scarlet fever. They all had a typical rash‚ and they were
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Treatment of Poison Ivy or Chicken Pox: Oatmeal has been used for thousands of years for treating eczema‚ poison ivy‚ insect bites and skin infections due to its anti-inflammatory‚ anti-oxidant and anti-itch properties. For relieving the itchiness caused by poison ivy or chicken pox or even sunburn‚ grind oats or oat flour into a fine powder and pour it into a cheese cloth. Tie it around the bath tub faucet and squeeze out water periodically to have a tepid bath. You can also rub the pouch on the
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The discovery of the vaccine for smallpox disease ended a global outbreak of death and helped keep powerful empires from falling. Smallpox ranks among the most devastating illnesses ever suffered by humankind‚ smallpox is an acute contagious disease caused by the variola virus. The disease is spread through direct contact with infected people or body fluids or with contaminated objects. The disease is thought to have originated in India or Egypt about 3‚000 years ago‚ with the earliest evidence dating
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The book I read this quarter is called Jenny Pox by J.L. Bryan. It’s a self published book I got for free on my kindle‚ and it’s 309 pages long. Jenny Pox is classified as horror in the kindle store‚ but the blurb didn’t seem to scary or graphic. It told me Jenny Pox was about a teenage girl named Jenny who couldn’t touch anyone without making them sick with a disease/infection nicknamed “Jenny Pox”. At the time‚ I was going on a sort of shopping spree for free books‚ so I bought it along with about
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Chicken Pox - Varicella Zoster Virus Oct 6‚ 2011 Introduction Varicella zoster virus (VZV) is one of eight herpes viruses known to cause childhood chicken pox. After primary infection of the host immune system‚ the virus becomes latent in the dorsal root ganglia and reactivates later to cause shingles and other neurologic complications (Arvin‚ 1996). The virus is transmitted by airborne viral particles or through contact of vesicular fluid from an infected contact (Arvin‚ 1996). VZV enters
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