Reye's Syndrome : Risk Factors
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Detailed information on the school-aged child, ages 6 to 12 years
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Detailed information on child growth and development at 6-12 years
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Detailed information on child growth and development at 6-12 years
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Varicella, or chickenpox, is an acute communicable disease characterized by a generalized vesicular rash. Because it is highly contagious, most individuals contract it in childhood.
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Chickenpox (also called varicella) is a common and extremely infectious childhood disease that also affects adults on occasion. It produces an itchy, blistery rash that typically lasts about a week and is sometimes accompanied by a fever or other symptoms.
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Chickenpox is one of the classic childhood diseases, and one of the most contagious. The affected child or adult may develop hundreds of itchy, fluid-filled blisters that burst and form crusts. Chickenpox is caused by a virus. The virus that causes chickenpox is varicella-zoster, a member of the herpesvirus family. The same virus also causes herpes zoster (shingles) in adults.
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Detailed information on chickenpox, including symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, complications, and immunity
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Varicella-zoster virus is the causal agent of varicella (chickenpox) and herpes zoster (shingles). Varicella, the primary varicella-zoster virus infection, is predominantly a childhood disease in non-vaccinated populations.
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Chickenpox (also called varicella) is a common, extremely infectious, rash-producing childhood disease that also affects adults on occasion. Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus (a member of the herpes virus family), which is spread through the air or by direct contact with an infected person.
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Detailed information on varicella, more commonly known as chickenpox
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Detailed information on chickenpox, including symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, complications, and immunity
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Detailed information on chickenpox, including symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, complications, and immunity
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Detailed information on chickenpox, including symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, complications, and immunity
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Detailed information on chickenpox, including symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, complications, and immunity
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Chickenpox (varicella) is a common and extremely infectious childhood disease that also occasionally affects adults. It produces an itchy, blistery rash that typically lasts about a week and is sometimes accompanied by a fever or other symptoms.
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Highly contagious childhood disease caused by the varicella zoster virus, and for which there is a vaccine to provide immunity. Chicken pox is a highly contagious childhood disease that, until the vaccine became available in the mid-1990s, affected nearly all children under the age of ten years.
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Chickenpox and whooping cough, once thought to strike only in childhood, increasingly occur among adults. Vaccines for both diseases may be available as early as 2006.
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Disease commonly known as chicken pox. Varicella, commonly known as chicken pox, is a highly contagious disease for which a vaccine became available in the 1990s.
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