5/29/07
Posibility of Infection in Chicken Pox and Varicella
Author: Groshan Fabiola
Caused by the varicella virus, Chicken pox is a very contagious disease ( viral infection). The word chicken pox has its roots in the Old English word 'gican' witch means 'to itch' or from the old French "chiche-pois" for chickpea, a description of the size of the lesion.
Being a childhood disease, 90% of the sick pacients are children under the age of 14 or younger. Chicken pox can strike at people at any time but it is most likely to occur most often in March, April, and May in temperate climates. Between 3.1 and 3.8 million (a number equal to all the birth of an year) cases of chickenpox would appear in people in the United States before the introduction of widespread vaccination.
The varicella virus is an enveloped, double-stranded DNA virus witch attaches its self to the wall of the cell it invades entering the cell afterwards. After it un coats it reaches the nucleus of the cell where it divides into virions that are later released out making it possible to infect other healthy cells.
The chickenpox virus is usually acquired by entering in direct contact with the infected fluid that the blisters contain, or by inhalation of the tiny respiratory droplets from the infected person's lung. When a pacient carrying the varicella virus sneezes or coughs it releases the virus into the air in the form of tiny droplets. A person standing near the diseased is this way exposed to the virus, witch is inhaled with the tiny droplets containing it. Reaching the lung it is than carried throughout the body to the other organs and skin where it causes the all so known rashes. Before the rash is seen the virus makes havoc in the body's organs and because the infection fever appears and even fatigue, joint pains, headache, and swollen glands. The usual incubation period for the chicken pox is 14 days but this period can range from 9 to 21 days.
The first visible signs of chicken pox appear on the skin, usually on the trunk, continuing afterwards to spread to the entire body. In the beginning the lesions are only 2 to 4 mm across but gradually they get bigger forming an irregular outline (rose petal). Later on it fills with a clear liquid only to get cloudy after 8 -12 hours, bursting afterwards. The liquid contained in the blister is considered to be very contagious. It eventually forms a crust that will fall of in some 7 days. The entire cycle of a blister last about 7 days only to let another one take its place somewhere else on the body. This taken in consideration it takes about a week for the lesions to stop appearing. Children are not sent back to school until the entire process has ended.
For more information about adult chicken pox or even about chicken pox vaccine please review this page http://www.chicken-pox-center.com/
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Author: Groshan Fabiola
Caused by the varicella virus, Chicken pox is a very contagious disease ( viral infection). The word chicken pox has its roots in the Old English word 'gican' witch means 'to itch' or from the old French "chiche-pois" for chickpea, a description of the size of the lesion.
Being a childhood disease, 90% of the sick pacients are children under the age of 14 or younger. Chicken pox can strike at people at any time but it is most likely to occur most often in March, April, and May in temperate climates. Between 3.1 and 3.8 million (a number equal to all the birth of an year) cases of chickenpox would appear in people in the United States before the introduction of widespread vaccination.
The varicella virus is an enveloped, double-stranded DNA virus witch attaches its self to the wall of the cell it invades entering the cell afterwards. After it un coats it reaches the nucleus of the cell where it divides into virions that are later released out making it possible to infect other healthy cells.
The chickenpox virus is usually acquired by entering in direct contact with the infected fluid that the blisters contain, or by inhalation of the tiny respiratory droplets from the infected person's lung. When a pacient carrying the varicella virus sneezes or coughs it releases the virus into the air in the form of tiny droplets. A person standing near the diseased is this way exposed to the virus, witch is inhaled with the tiny droplets containing it. Reaching the lung it is than carried throughout the body to the other organs and skin where it causes the all so known rashes. Before the rash is seen the virus makes havoc in the body's organs and because the infection fever appears and even fatigue, joint pains, headache, and swollen glands. The usual incubation period for the chicken pox is 14 days but this period can range from 9 to 21 days.
The first visible signs of chicken pox appear on the skin, usually on the trunk, continuing afterwards to spread to the entire body. In the beginning the lesions are only 2 to 4 mm across but gradually they get bigger forming an irregular outline (rose petal). Later on it fills with a clear liquid only to get cloudy after 8 -12 hours, bursting afterwards. The liquid contained in the blister is considered to be very contagious. It eventually forms a crust that will fall of in some 7 days. The entire cycle of a blister last about 7 days only to let another one take its place somewhere else on the body. This taken in consideration it takes about a week for the lesions to stop appearing. Children are not sent back to school until the entire process has ended.
For more information about adult chicken pox or even about chicken pox vaccine please review this page http://www.chicken-pox-center.com/
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For more information about adult chicken pox or even about chicken pox vaccine please review this page http://www.chicken-pox-center.com/
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