Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, and it can spread easily. You can get chickenpox from an infected person who sneezes, coughs, or shares food with you. It is also spread if you touch the fluid from a chickenpox blister.
A person who has chickenpox can spread the virus even before he or she has any symptoms. Chickenpox is most easily spread from 2 to 3 days before the rash appears until all the blisters have crusted over.
Yes, the name chickenpox was actually called varicella but they changed it after they found out what it originally came to be and how it works.
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.
In the US, it is normal for hospital works to demonstrate immunity to chickenpox prior to beginning work. "Contact" with chickenpox will have a different impact based on your immune status. Contact your health care provider or hospital infection control department to determine your immune status and the possible impact of your exposure.
Yes, anybody can get chickenpox.
Chickenpox is an illness. It has no advantages.
Pandas don't get chickenpox. Chickenpox affects humans and a few other primates.
Chickenpox rates have decreased 90% since the use of chickenpox vaccine.