Chickenpox and Its Epidemiology

The Varicella-Zoster virus causes a very infectious disease called Chickenpox. Chickenpox is usually acquired through the inhalation of airborne respiratory droplets from an infected host. Chickenpox is primarily acquired during childhood , with more than 90% of all reported cases occurring in children under the age of 10. A person with chickenpox can spread the virus without even showing any signs or symptoms. It is usually most easily transmitted two to three days before a rash appears and keeps that high transmission rate until the blisters have crusted over.

Chicken poxChickenpox  is a mild and common childhood illness that most children catch at some point.

Another interesting fact that I came across within the article, was that a host with shingles is able to provide direct transmission of the chickenpox’s with the help of an open rash or sore. Naturally you would expect the person to automatically

The incubation period for chicken pox is 2-3 weeks (Bishop,P et al. 2010), this is the contagious time before the signs and symptoms start showing, which means the nurse’s daughter, was past the infectious period of the disease. The nurse’s daughter could have had the virus for over a week, and exposed her mother to it during this time. If the nurse developed symptoms a few days after getting Varicella Zoster Immunoglobin, she had already contracted the virus before immuniglobin injection had been administered, thus not able to prevent chickenpox in this case.

It is not a serious health issue to healthy children and adults. It can cause problems for pregnant women, newborns, teens, adults, and people who have immune system problems. Chickenpox is spread easily. It can be spread by an infected person when they sneeze, cough, or you share food or drink with them. It can also be contracted by coming in contact with the liquid from a chickenpox blister. If you live with someone who has chickenpox, you have a much higher chance of contracting them. The first symptoms occur fourteen to sixteen days after a person is infected with the virus. Infected person usually feels sick and runs a fever; they have a loss of appetite, headache, cough, and sore throat. The rash appears a day or two after the other symptoms begin. After the rash appears, it takes a day or two for the spots to go through all of its stages. These stages include: blistering, bursting, drying, and crusting over. New spots will continue to appear for five to seven days. Ten days after the first symptoms is when all of the spots usually will have crusted over and it is okay to be around other

Chickenpox is a viral disease caused by the Varicella-zoster virus which is a DNA virus that is a member of the herpesvirus group. The virus undergoes a lysogenic cycle in which the virus replicates its DNA to make new virus particles. The varicella-zoster virus is spherical in shape.

Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV) causes the infection of chickenpox, but you are more likely to get infected by touching someone that already has the disease. The disease can spread by: saliva, coughing, sneezing, and contact with the fluid from the blisters.

Chickenpox is a common childhood skin disease that caused by a viral infection. The virus that is involved is called the varicella zoster virus (www.medicinenet.com). The disease has a worldwide distribution and is reported throughout the year in regions of temperature climate. The peak incidence is generally during the month of March through May lifelong immunity for chickenpox generally fellow the disease.

Chicken Pox is a virus caused by varicella-zoster, a member of the herpes family. This same virus also is a cause of herpes zoster other known as shingles in adults. Chicken pox is very contagious and can easily spread to people. Chicken pox is acquired by coming into contact with the fluid of a chicken pox blister, or airborne by an infected person sneezing near you. The blister-like rash usually lasts five to ten days. The incubation period lasts 10-21 days and a person with chickenpox becomes contagious one to two days before their blisters appear. The person with chicken pox remains contagious until all the blisters have crusted

Congenital varicella syndrome is a disorder that affects infants at birth due to an infected mother with varicella zoster virus or chickenpox during early pregnancy. Varicella zoster virus is a DNA virus that comes from herpes family and it is an infectious agent that is highly contagious. The virus easily transmits from one person to another during coughing or sneezing. It can also transmit by touching contaminated things with the virus and by breathing in particles from the virus. Signs that shows on adults are rashes and itchy blisters throughout the body. It also has a symptom of a headache and a fever. The sign and symptoms are mild in vaccinated person. An infection of the virus from a mother to an infant in the first 20 weeks of gestational

Chickenpox or Varicella is more common among kids under 18. Today most people give their kids the Varicella vaccine between 12 and 15 months old and another shot at 4 to 6 years old. The disease is less likely to get if vaccinated. Chickenpox is contagious if contracted. If a person does get the disease then they should stay at home and rest until the rash is gone. Chickenpox has always been spread by saliva, mucus, touching blisters, coughing or sneezing. One book says Giovanni Filippo gave the first description of the virus. In the 1600’s a physician named Richard Morton described something he thought was chickenpox but was actually smallpox. In 1767 a physician named William Heberden from England showed that chickenpox is different

Varicella Zoster Virus is a DNA virus and has almost the exact same genes of herpesvirus group (www.cdc.gov). Which also makes the Varicella be part of the same family and strand of DNA of VZV. Whenever you get the virus inside your system it will last about 5-10 days if it is not sever. The symptoms before you know you might have chicken pox are high fever, headache, tiredness loss of appetite. Other symptoms that are going to show on the skin of the patient are rashes all over the body, blisters all over your body that have liquid inside them eventually turning them into scabs. The rash usually shows on the face and chest later on spreading all over the body. About in a week all blisters should have already been turned to scabs. Some rare complications with varicella include Rare

Acting in different levels, from micro to macro, those determinants have effect in a complex interplay of a multidirectional flow between the individual and the social scope. They are normally and roughly grouped into categories, such as individual factors interpersonal factors, institutional and community environments, broader social, economic and political influences. That concept allows explain why some people and groups are at higher risk for develop some diseases instead of others, and that is a very important key for a better understanding of its prevalence and to design more effective prevention strategies.

The article describes what chicken pox is, its effects short term and long term, importance of getting vaccinated since it’s a very common childhood disease. The specific facts I want to use about chicken pox is that it’s a very common childhood disease, what age is best to receive the vaccination, scientists believe all kids should receive the chicken pox vaccine, before the vaccine about 11,000 people were hospitalized in the United States each year, and also before the vaccine about 100 people died each year because of the disease. This will add logos and pathos because it gives a specific amount of individuals being hospitalized yearly before the vaccine, also there is nothing humorous about a disease that is common in childhood or death.

Epidemiology is a medical science discipline that arranges the structure for studying the distribution and determinants of health, communicable disease, and circumstances related to health status. The epidemiology research help to understand in what means a person catch diseases, the changes, and how the disease affect the population. The nurses that work with these communities to help identify the onset of communicable diseases determine new victims, the patterns it spread, the causes or preventive methods are known as community or public health nursing (Maurer, Smith, 2013). The purpose of this paper is to explain on the concepts of a communicable disease “Chickenpox” with its own unique epidemiology and nursing research to this