Chicken pox

1. Chicken pox What is chicken pox? How is it caused Children chicken pox patients Interview with chicken pox patients Body parts affected by chicken pox

2. What is chicken pox? • Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus. It usually starts with vesicular skin rash mainly on the body and head rather than at the periphery and becomes itchy, raw pockmarks, which mostly heal without scarring.

3. How is it caused? • Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. You catch it by coming into contact with someone who is infected with the virus. • It's a very contagious infection. About 90% of people who have not previously had chickenpox will become infected when they come into contact with the virus.

4. Children Chicken pox patients • It occurs most frequently in children, between the ages of five and eight. Less than 20 percent of all cases in the U.S. affect people over the age of 15. Chicken pox is highly contagious to non-immune individuals (up to 90%), although the disease severity can range from asymptomatic to serious illness with complications. Having the disease usually creates life-long immunity, although it is possible to get chicken pox again, particularly when the first case happened at less than one year old or if the person becomes immunocompromised. Anyone who has had chicken pox may later develop Shingles, which is a local recurrence of the rash, often quite painful. Shingles comes from the initial infection and not from being exposed again.

5. Interview with chicken pox patients • www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Abw_en5FvY

6. Body parts affected by chicken pox • Chickenpox can affect the entire body. It is appears as small tiny red blisters all over the body. Although it is known to start around the buttocks area or the small of the back.