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Article #8: What causes chickenpox ?

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Chickenpox is a highly contagious should not go to school because they can
disease, caused by a virus which belongs infect others. Pregnant women who have
to the herpes family. This virus is known made chickenpox before are safe and so is
as varicella-zoster virus and also as the their baby. If she has not made
Herpes Zoster virus. Not only chickenpox chickenpox and got in contact with an
is produced by it but shingles is too. infected person, the doctor can
Chickenpox occurs mostly during the end administer antibodies of chickenpox
of the winter and the beginning of the within 4 days of a possible
spring. It generally affects children contamination. After the dry scabs form
aged from 2 to 8 and can take the form of the rate of contamination will decrease.
epidemics. After the disease had terminated the
If an infected person coughs or sneezes, virus will not disappear completely, it
the virus will be spread in the air and will shed inside the nervous cells and
will be caught by other healthy persons will remain inactive for some years. At
while breathing. The virus is known to be some point, when the immune system will
present in the body long before the skin work improperly the virus will reactivate
rash appears; this is the reason why and will cause shingles. This is a
there are so many cases of contamination. painful disease that affects the face and
After the virus got into your body it trunk nerves and also causes a rash to
generally needs two weeks to develop and appear.
only then the rash will appear. But this The chickenpox infected person will also
does not mean that you are not contagious be prohibited from flying because the air
within these two weeks. conditioner in airplanes will transmit
The symptoms of chickenpox are: fever, the virus more easily to other
itchy, red bumps that transform into passengers. The virus is dangerous for
round blisters with a red base. These those who have AIDS, cancer or follow a
blisters will form a crust and will treatment with immunosuppressive drugs.
eventually dry. For at least 5 days the Only those who have a good immune system
infected person should not get into close response and those who have been
contact with people that have not vaccinated against chickenpox will not
suffered from chickenpox and children develop the disease.






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