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CHICKENPOX!!!!
Def: Chickenpox (also called varicella) is a common and extremely infectious childhood disease that also affects adults on occasion. It produces an itchy, blistery rash that typically lasts about a week and is sometimes accompanied by a fever or other symptoms. A single attack of chickenpox almost always confers lifelong immunity against the disease. Most of the time this diease can be taken care of at home.
How it Attacts! Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus (a member of the herpes virus family), which is spread through the air or by direct contact with an infected person.
The most common place people get chickenpox in all over their body beucase the diease are little scabby like which itch.
The most common injury iare spots that typically become itchy, and they are also called fluid-filled bumps called vesicles.
About four million Americans contract chickenpox each year, resulting in roughly 5,000-9,000 hospitalizations and 100 deaths.
The rating on the Chickenpox is about an 6 .
