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what is chickenpox?

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Chicken pox: This is a common contagious virus known as varicella zoster

Question 2

what is chickenpox a risk factor for?

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Chickenpox is a risk factor for::   Necrotizing fasciitis, Reye Syndrome.

Question 3

i need a straight answer. what is chickenpox?

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Viral illness: Chickenpox is a rash and fever caused by the varicella virus, usually in children - although it is far less common now that most kids are vaccinated against it. The same identical virus causes shingles in adults.

Question 4

what is caposi's chickenpox?

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KVE: Kaposi varicelliform eruption (KVE) is a skin eruption caused by a variety of viral infections, which has superimposed on a person with underlying atopic dermatitis or eczema.

Question 5

what is kaposi's chickenpox?

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KVE: Kaposi varicelliform eruption (KVE) is a skin eruption caused by a variety of viral infections, which has superimposed on a person with underlying atopic dermatitis or eczema.

Question 6

what sort of disease is chickenpox?

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It's a viral illness: It used to be extremely common, but isn't anymore now that we vaccinate against it.  Prior to the vaccine, 100-200 children per year died in the USA as a result of complications of chicken pox.   That number is now much lower.  Once you have chicken pox, you have it forever.  The virus lies dormant near your spinal cord, and sometimes reactivates.  When it reemerges, it's called shingles.

Question 7

what is the disparity between chickenpox and shingles?

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Primary vs return: Chickenpox is the primary infection of a patient by the wild varicella virus.It has an incubation phase, a blood phase, is spread in saliva and in material from the spots all over. After the primary infection it goes into hibernation in nerve clusters along the spinal cord. It can emerge from hibernation years later as a localized outbreak shingles.Then, only debris from the spots has the virus.

Question 8

what is the difference between chickenpox and shingles?

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Location: Chickenpox describes a generalized illness where the virus has circulated thru the body and comes to the skin surface as a later stage. On the skin surface the blisters come up and have living virus in them. Zoster is a reactivation of the virus from its hiding place in a nerve root and its physical location is limited to the skin area supplied by that nerve.The virus is the same.

Question 9

is chickenpox safe for kids?

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??confusing question: Wild chicken pox in its hayday annually infected 2-4 million people/yr, usually kids, killed ~50 &amp; led to 10thou hosps in the US. The present vaccine was first available in Japan &amp; evaluated for 16 years before becoming adopted for general use in the US (delay primarily for cost/benefit issues).CP deaths are now quite rare.Negatives include poor protection for some &amp; vaccine related chicken pox.

Question 10

can you get chickenpox twice?

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Not really: Typically you can only get chicken pox once. After that you can get a second type of infection from the same virus called shingles. Shingles is a painful rash that follows a nerve track along the surface of your body. The varicella vaccine can help to prevent both of these diseases.

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