Chicken pox is a viral disease that causes a fever and blistering in one area and spreads all throughout the body and ranges in two hundred fifty to five hundred blisters. The blisters tend to create a red rash and itchy feeling in the skin. Chicken pox, or varicella-zoster virus is most dangerous for babies because of the undeveloped immune system, and also for adults due to their weakening immunity through aging. No one really knows an exact time of when the virus was being transmitted until it began its outbreak soon after the small pox was eradicated. William Herberden first made the distinction in 1759, and the reason why it was so difficult to differentiate was because like small pox and the bubonic plague, chicken …show more content…
These high numbers show that the disease was very common and took a toll on people. The individuals who are affected go through a mind tormenting discomfort. Depending on the severity, the person will go through a cold, then will intensify into a rash that will soon distort your appearance to look full of red bumps and cause the person to feel fatigued.
Can chicken pox be eradicated?
Eradicating this disease could be possible with the steps that we are currently doing but with some extra movements to make it possible. Compared to previous times, the disease has prevented ninety percent of the country but is still such a large number that we continue to hear of it. On a better note, we have also eliminated the chance of death from Chicken pox and created a more healthy and efficient environment with the decrease of the illness. There is no doubt that this still common virus could be shrunken even more to the point where we never have to deal with it just like its sister infection the small pox.
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We can rid the virus once and for all by making it a social responsibility for people to take a bigger role in this issue. What has perhaps been the most efficient method is our vaccines and the constant pressure to improve them, but because they have worked out, people would simply make it their civil duty to receive these on time and not wait till they need to fill requirements. On average the cost from private sectors will cost $107.67 per dose for a varicella virus vaccine but most health insurance companies cover the need for the vaccine.
Another method to help this issue is something that I have seen several times personally and that was that parents in Mexico will take out their sick infants or children to the streets as if they were ok. In the U.S. we are accustomed to practice staying home when we are sick to prevent spread in work places and school. If chicken pox is still a big problem in less developed countries just like Mexico we need to educate all through the world what is to be done in this