Sunday 14 August 2011

Chickenpox Overview

Chickenpox, also known as chicken pox is highly contagious and self-limiting infection, which occurs most commonly in children 5-10 years of age. The disease has a worldwide distribution and is reported throughout the temperate zones. Peak is usually the case during the period March to May. Lifelong immunity to chickenpox is usually followed by illness. If the patient's immune system is not completely clear the body of the virus, may withdraw from the bodies of sensory nerve cells of the skin, where it is protected from the patient's immune system. Disease, herpes zoster (also known as "shingles") represents the release of the virus throughout the length of the nerve fibers of the skin and produces a characteristic rash painful. Shingles is the most common disease in adults

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