Chickenpox infects humans as well as a few primate like gorillas. It doesn't infect cats, dogs, birds, or other animals.
Yes, in immune compromised patients, chickenpox can rarely infect the internal organs.
"Chickenpox" (Varicella) affects males and females equally.
Chickenpox is one of eight herpes viruses known to infect humans and vertebrates.
If you want to get your child immunity to chickenpox, the use of chickenpox vaccine is a more controlled approach that has a lower side effect profile than natural chickenpox infection.
Bacteria are unicellular. The cells of the organism they infect are, quite often, part of a multicellular organism.
Yes, chickenpox is contagious from before the blisters show up until all blisters are scabbed over. It is contagious with both closed and open blisters.
You could be vaccinated with medicines that help your body to go against chickenpox, polio or other diseases that could infect your body.
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They are both diseases caused by a type of organism called a "virus".Chickenpox and colds are both viral illnesses that can cause nasal congestion, sore throat, and fever.
Because the living organism has to replicate the DNA that the virus infects the host with. It can't do this if it is a dead organism.
When people speak of a "carrier" of an infectious disease, they normally are referring to someone who is carrying the germ, can infect others, but has no symptoms. The period between getting the virus and getting symptoms is called the "incubation period" of an infection. The incubation period of chickenpox is 10-21 days, but is typically about two weeks. However, chickenpox is a virus in the herpes family that goes into remission after the patient recovers from chickenpox. The virus stays in your body. It is the same virus that causes shingles in some in later years. However, in this period of remission, the patient is not contagious and isn't, technically, a "carrier."
You can't catch shingles. Shingles is caused by the organism that gave you chickenpox as a child.