Why Do We Get Chicken Pox?
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Chicken pox is usually considered to be a disease of childhood, but adults can get it too.Chicken pox is a very contagious disease. It is believed that a virus causes the disease. It is usually transmitted directly from person to person and not by contact with clothing or other articles soiled by an infected person.
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Chicken pox is transmitted through contact with the red bumps that it causes. If you come into contact with an infected and touch the skin where it is visible you can get it. It also
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There are several explanations for the term "chicken pox." The lesions on the skin caused from chicken pox are said to look like chicken pecks. Hence the name chicken pox.
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Chicken pox is mostly found in children and is transmitted by the varicella-zoster virus. Chicken pox look like blisters and once they pop open they turn into brown scabs and eventually
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Chicken pox was discovered by Muhammad ibn Zakariya ar-Razi, from Perisa, who lived in 865-925. The final identifiers were found in 1767 by William Heberden, from England, who determined
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