Chickenpox

Chickenpox doesn't affect fertility. The virus usually associated with infertility is another common childhood illness - mumps. Mumps can affect the testes, and in an adult can result in infertility.

Shingles, also known as Herpes Zoster

Viruses are not living things because they do not meat the definition/standard science uses to define living things.

No, for one, Malaria infection is carried by a vector, in this case, a mosquitoe while Chicken pox is a viral infection without any vector. Although both are communicable diseases, chickenpox has a different transmission than Malaria.

Yes, a history of herpes doesn't provide immunity from chickenpox.

It is a virus that causes what we call chickenpox.

Chickenpox has decreased significantly in the last 20 years in the US since chickenpox vaccine was approved in the US in 1995.

No, chickenpox remains contagious until all spots are scabbed over.

In case of tetanus vaccine, you culture the bacteria. Then isolate the bacteria and kill the same. Then you treat the same with phenol and / or aluminium hydroxide. The killed bacteria are oxydized with potassium dichromate. So you prepare the toxoid of the same. In case of rabies vaccine, you pass the virus repeatedly through the sheep or rabbit brain to prepare the fixed strain. Then from this fixed strain the scientist has prepared the vaccine, by attenuating the strain. So the viruses are cultured, usually on cell cultures and then attenuated to prepare the vaccines. Little is known about this to medical community. All the inventions are done by the scientists. They are the 'real' heroes and doctors get the credit for everything.

No. Chickenpox did not come from smallpox they are 2 separate viruses.

My brother had shingles when he was 4 or5 that would have been in about 1950. It was very bad. He was totally miserable. At that time the doctor said he was the youngest person he knew of to have them and he wrote of the case for a medical journal.

He lay on the bed without clothing or even a sheet. If you walked past the door or turned on the light in the next room he woke up screaming.

A child/infant should not be around someone with chicken pox. If a child has already had the vaccination, they should be okay; however, vaccinated children have developed chicken pox. http://www.drgreene.com/21_510.html

Chickenpox is not a genetic disease. It's an infectious disease caused by varicella zoster virus.

You do not get shingles without first getting the chicken pox.
You can't get shingles from someone. You only get shingles if you've had chickenpox in the past. If you have direct contact with shingles lesions, you could get chickenpox.

The skin and mucous membranes are the body parts most affected by chickenpox and shingles. Shingles also affects the nerves in the area that has the rash.

i agree thay are similar (red dots covering places) however you usually begin to first see Chicken Pox on the palms of your hands bafore anywhere else. they both have red dots on the body though i would think penicillin is smaller dots whereas chickenpox would be possible larger. i dont know much because ive never had chicken pox but my mother is allergic to penicillin so i know a bit.

Chickenpox vaccine is injected subcutaneously to reduce the risk in chickenpox in patients who don't have a history of chickenpox. It is routinely given in the US with the first dose at 12-15 months, and the second dose at 4-6 years, but may be given to older children and adults as well.

No, there is no reason to get chickenpox vaccine if you've had shingles. You should talk with your health care provider about shingles vaccine.

Yes it does, the puss could potentially become poisonous and you need to get it out of the blister immediately. GET TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM IMMEDIATELY

Yes, once a child has had chicken pox, he or she cannot cannot usually get the disease again and so could hang out with a child who has the disease.

However, he or she should touch the open, oozing sores on the infected child, nor share anything that would transfer saliva. If the infected child is sneezing, that child should be kept at home until they are not sneezing.

Sometimes granuloma annulare can arise after chickenpox infection. See your health care provider for further diagnosis and treatment.

No. Or rather, I should say, "Not unless you scratch so hard you get into your skull" :} You're safe from encephalitis, but you should know that herpes is contagious and requires you to take sterile procedures. Mostly, washing your hands thoroughly and often will do. If you have herpes, you're going to have to develop lifelong habits of good hygene. This seems like a good, safe place to start.