Chicken Pox With Works Cited

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of chickenpox being one of the oldest diseases. Since the chickenpox infection has two phases, one most common during childhood then a latent form that can become active again later in the persons life, doctors believe that this reactivation would start the cycle all over again. If everyone in the first cycle got the germ then became immune a whole new generation would be born by the time the virus “reawakened” to become infectious in the new generation. This causes the suspicion of chickenpox being one of the oldest diseases. (7)
Chickenpox can infect everyone and anyone throughout the world (7). More than three million Americans mostly children between the ages of two and eight are affected every year (3). The virus is known for being mild, but if an adult or a child with a weak immune system catches it it could become serious (3). “It kills between fifty and a hundred people every year.” (3) Almost 10,000 people are hospitalized each year for complications with the ...

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the last blister is scabbed over. (3)
The rash of chickenpox starts on the chest or abdomen as fluid-filled blisters on small patches of red skin. After a few days the blisters break, and then dry and scab over. The pox start out in very low numbers, but then rapidly spread over three to four days, and eventually cover the entire body. The pox are extremely itchy but dry up and scab over within ten days. The person suffering from chickenpox may also suffer from headaches. Swollen lymph glands under the neck, fever, tiredness, and irritability. (3)
Chickenpox is known for being a mild disease but some may suffer from complications (7). One in every four hundred people who develop ...

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