Yes, when your a child and you get chickenpox you develop immunity to it because your immune system understands the virus that gives you chickenpox so can battle it with ease.
If you haven't had chicken pox yet, your immune system doesn't have time to understand the virus and therefore it's completely knew to your body.
They can if they have not already had it. It might also be shingles
Yes, you can get shingles if you had chickenpox as an adult.
There is no harm in elderly people being around chickenpox if they are immune to chickenpox and if they have a working immune system.
A carrier of chickenpox is someone who is infected but doesn't have symptoms. Most people who get chickenpox do not get infected twice. You are not likely to get chickenpox as an adult if you had them as a child.
Adults can get both chickenpox and shingles. Prior to universal vaccination in the US, chickenpox was considered a "childhood" disease. Since vaccination became routine, the average age of chickenpox patients has increased. The virus that causes the disease, varicella zoster virus, lives, dormant, in the spinal cord after the disease is over . In later adult years, this can flare up again as shingles. An adult who never had chickenpox or the vaccine can't get shingles. Between one in five and one in three adults will get shingles after having chickenpox.
For children, chickenpox is not deadly, but if an adult catches it for the first time, it can be very dangerous. If an adult has a compromised immune system already, chickenpox can be deadly.Sure is.
Yes, a child can die from chickenpox, but the vast majority of children recover from chickenpox with no long-term effects.
Prior to chickenpox vaccine, 90% of adult had a history of chickenpox. Today, with routine vaccination in the US, the numbers are lower.
Yes. Since Chicken Pox is contagious, the primary way to get it is from being exposed to someone else who currently has it - whether that be a child or an adult.
A baby would heal faster with chickenpox than an adult, in general.
A person with a history of chickenpox or history of chickenpox vaccine will typically have a positive antibody test for chickenpox.
Getting chickenpox as an adult has a higher risk of complications and death.
If the older adult has had chickenpox or the vaccine, there is no additional risk from exposure to chickenpox. If not, the person should avoid contact with the chickenpox patient.
yes. it has a higher percentage of death than a kid would.yep
Chickenpox does not affect fertility. Any woman can be infertile, but it has nothing to do with her chickenpox history.