Chicken pox virus

Disease caused by chicken pox virus.

Chicken pox is a highly contagious disease caused by chicken pox virus named varicella zoster virus. This disease caused by chicken pox virus usually starts with skin rash and the rashes become itchy, raw pockmarks, which mostly heal without leaving scars. This disease spreads easily through coughing or sneezing of ill individuals or through direct contacts with the body parts with the rash. It only takes days for this disease caused by chicken pox virus or varicella zoster virus to spread from an ill individual to other innocence people. That is why, chicken pox is considered as highly contagious disease.
Three cases of this disease has been diagnosed in UT Dallas Student Health Care in august 29 2011. It is informed that the people had not been given the vaccine for the disease caused by the chicken pox virus. Indeed, people with no experience with the disease or those who has not got the vaccine for chicken pox are the highly at risk to get or infected with chicken pox virus. If you want to avoid getting chicken pox or want to protect your family members from getting infected, go as fast as you can to get the vaccine in the nearest sophisticated healthcare in your town.
Chicken pox virus is not a kind of virus that only attack certain range of age. It may attack you anytime no matter how old you are. Even to the fetus in the mother’s womb, the infection of this virus may lead to viral transmission through the placenta. The infections of the virus to the fetus leads to possibilities of underdeveloped toes and fingers or even anal and bladder malformation to the child. Other possible effects are brain damage, neurological disorder, skin disorder, and even damage to the infant’s body.
There is no actual cure for chicken pox. However, the treatments to the patients with the chicken pox infections are mainly consist of easing the symptoms. This kind of treatment is focused on reducing the symptoms while the immune system clearing the chicken pox virus in the body. The sufferers are also asked to frequently cut their nails or to wear gloves to prevent scratching and to minimize the possibility of causing further infections. Although chicken pox virus infection is considered as not so dangerous and only little cases which this disease leads to the death, this disease is still a dangerous one since it is highly contagious. Thus, we need to avoid getting it by having ourselves the vaccine and keep our immune system works well.

Chicken pox symptoms

What are chicken pox symptoms?

To identify chicken pox symptoms, we first have to know what the disease is. Chicken pox is a highly contagious disease caused by chicken pox virus named varicella zoster virus. Chicken pox symptoms that are caused by the infection by chicken pox virus usually starts with skin rash and the rashes become itchy, raw pockmarks, which mostly heal without leaving scars. This disease spreads easily through coughing or sneezing of ill individuals or through direct contacts with the body parts with the rash. It only takes days for this disease caused by chicken pox virus or varicella zoster virus to spread from an ill individual to other innocence people. Chicken pox symptoms usually take place only 4 to 5 days after the infection. That is why, chicken pox is considered as highly contagious disease.
The arrival of illness with chicken pox is often characterized by symptoms including fever, nausea, and headache, and sore throat, pain in ears, malaise, and swollen face in adult and adolescent patients. In children, the development of the chicken pox symptoms usually starts with skin rash followed by malaise, fever with body temperature of 38 degree Celsius (100 degree Fahrenheit) until 42 degree Celsius in some cases also anorexia. Usually, chicken pox symptoms and disease is more serious in adults. Also, chicken pox is usually more severe in adult males than adult females or children. Chicken pox is believed as the cause of one third strokes cases in kids. In addition, chicken pox can also cause shingles because the re-activation of the varicella zoster virus in the body.
In 1974, Michiaki Takahashi developed the vaccine to this disease. Afterward, this vaccine has been available since 1995 in United State to give a vaccination to against the disease. The vaccination of this vaccine is done in two different times. The second vaccine is needed five years after the first vaccination. This is because the first vaccination is usually done when we were just kids. As the time passes and as we grow older, our immune system usually becomes different. Thus, we need two shots of the vaccination. Nowadays, to decrease the torture caused by chicken pox symptoms, the doctors usually only use pain reducer. They just have to wait the system immune of the body beat the virus while the pain reducer helps to decrease the chicken pox symptoms.