How Do You Fake Chicken Pox?

How can someone get chicken pox?Is there a cure for it?

• I don't really have chicken pox but I'm doing a research on it. The word chicken pox makes me think of rubber chickens.Ok, how did it get it's name?Is it when you get reddish spotts on you?I know I didn't stick to the topic but it's still about chicken pox. So basicly I want to know about chicken pox. So feel free too tell me anything about chicken pox.

• Answer:

  Chickenpox (varicella) is a highly contagious viral disease that tends to target children aged under 14 years. Outbreaks are more common in winter and early spring. A vaccine is available. Chickenpox is spread by breathing in virus particles from an infected person’s cough, sneeze or exhalation. The principal symptom is the characteristic blistering skin rash. This rash is also infectious, since viruses are contained inside the fluid of each blister. An infected person is contagious for up to five days before the rash appears and remains infectious until the blisters form scabs (usually around day five of the illness). For healthy people, chickenpox is mild and self-limiting. Those groups more at risk for complications include pregnant women, newborns and people with immune deficiency (such as children with leukaemia). The varicella-zoster virus (VZV) responsible for chickenpox also causes attacks of shingles (herpes zoster) in adults when the latent infection reactivates. Symptoms The symptoms of chickenpox include: A skin rash appears as little blisters surrounded by irregular-shaped patches of inflamed skin (‘dew drop on a rose petal’). The rash is intensely itchy. The rash usually starts on the body, then progresses to include the head and limbs. Ulcers may develop in certain areas, including the mouth and vagina. The person usually has a fever. After around five days, the little blisters burst and develop crusts. Chickenpox and shingles The varicella-zoster virus (VZV) responsible for chickenpox also causes attacks of shingles in adults. Following an attack of chickenpox, the virus becomes latent (lies dormant) in certain nerve cells known as dorsal root ganglia. It may reactivate and give rise to an attack of shingles. However, an adult with shingles is much less likely to transmit chickenpox because the virus particles of shingles do not usually live in the throat, so they cannot be breathed out.