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What body system does chicken pox affect?

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Dr. Joel Gallant answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

Mainly skin: It mainly affects the skin, giving you itchy rash with blisters. But since it's a systemic viral infection, you can also feel generally sick, with nausea, loss of appetite, aching muscles, fever and headache. Those symptoms may begin before the rash.

Answered 3/26/2018

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