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What is chicken pox? and how i can safe my self fron chicken pox?
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Chicken pox: Chicken Pox is a contagious diseae caused by the varicella zoster virus. Its an airborne disease which spreads by being around someone infected who is coughing/sneezing, or, with direct contact to secretions from the skin lesions/pustules. Stay awy from infected people and you are fine. Most kids/people in the USA are vaccinated so its become rarer. However, it is still around.
Answered 7/13/2014
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