Disease Surveillance And Investigation Efforts

| It's a very contagious infection.The chickenpox virus is spread in the same ways as colds as flu.

Starting from the beginning; Varicella or chicken pox is an infectious disease that can be characterized by an itchy skin rash. The rash usually appears a few days after exposure and can spread throughout the entire body accompanied with fever, fatigue, and flu like symptoms. Each rash blister will dry out and form a scab which then falls off in the course of healing. Getting chicken pox more than

Shingles is a virus that causes a tender rash located anywhere on the body. The torso and face are common areas for shingles to occur, and usually appears just as a strip of blisters. The shingles virus can affect anybody, but is more likely to occur in adults. Varicella-zoster virus, which causes chickenpox, can lead to shingles. Once someone has had chickenpox, it remains in the body located in nerve tissue close to the spinal cord. After a number of years, it can reappear as the shingles virus. The virus remains in the body and can flare up at different times, but some people never experience the return of this virus. It is not possible to get shingles if one has never been exposed to chickenpox.

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

Varicella is highly contagious. The virus spreads in the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes; there are droplets with the virus in the air. The incubation period for varicella is 14 to 16 days after exposure to a varicella rash, with a range of 10 to 21 days (“Clinical Overview”). Chickenpox displays several symptoms, but they can vary from person to person.

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.

Once you have the chicken pox, the virus travels from your skin, to the cranial nerves, and then to your dorsal root ganglion cells. After that, the virus remains dormant. The virus waits until the setting is ideal in your

This includes the detection, epidemiologic assessment, and analysis of disease occurrence and spread, along with compiling health statistics including morbidity and mortality. The determination of risk factors associated with acquisition of disease and identification of persons at risk for disease are major goals of the assessment. Also making recommendations including isolation and quarantine and assuring prophylaxis. The Allegan County Health Department’s Health Officer (ACHO) with the guidance of the Allegan County Health Department’s Medical Director is responsible for making public health recommendations to individuals and groups to treat and/or prevent further spread of disease. These actions include, but are not limited to, recommendations involving isolation, quarantine and/or assuring medication for prophylaxis. This prophylaxis assurance is provided by direct assistance from the department and identification of additional resources outside the department to administer prophylaxis when the need exceeds departmental

The chickenpox’s are highly contagious and can spread very easily. They are common in children but can happen to anybody. Chickenpox are a disease that causes itching and red dots all over your body. They are painful, and can last anywhere from a couple days to a couple weeks. The chickenpox’s heal on their own but it’s still highly encouraged to go to a doctor. They are preventable by getting a vaccination.

Chicken pox, also called varicella, is a contagious illness that causes red spots that itch and some blister all over the body. We are going to take a closer look into how this is passed, the signs and symptoms, and who it effects the most. Most children receive the vaccination for Chicken pox at an early age. Adults can receive the vaccination as well, and the chicken pox vaccination requires to separate doses of the vaccine. Chicken pox is highly contagious to people who have yet to be exposed to the virus.

One way that national and international agencies are involved with state and local health departments is the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS), which is a nationwide collaboration that allows local, state, territorial, federal, and international health agencies to share information about disease-related issues. Health departments work with healthcare providers, hospitals, laboratories, and others to increase monitoring, control, and prevention of diseases which allows for collection, analysis, and sharing of data and works to increase awareness of potential outbreaks. By interacting with one another, public health agencies are able to provide up-to-date information for their constituents and can even have

This virus has a double stranded DNA genome and is also “enclosed within an icosahedral capsid, surrounded by a phospholipid envelope”. They are typical symptoms to Chickenpox before the rash starts to appear, these include; fever, loss of appetite, headache and tiredness, but once the disease actually appears, it turns into very itchy fluid-filled blisters that ultimately turn into dry scabs. The first spots that the rash may appear is the face and the back, then it quickly spreads to the rest of the body affecting even genital areas, and inside of the mouth. They are key symptoms that doctors look for to diagnose chickenpox, many professionals perform a blood test that checks if a person is producing antibodies to the virus, this to determine whether or not an individual is already immune to it (chickenpox). Usually, there is no medical test needed, but instead doctor look for common symptoms to make a clear diagnosis (fever followed by an itchy rash). Still, Chickenpox can be confused with conditions that affect the skin like scabies or even insect bites, this is why it is crucial to seek professional help when a person suspects he or she has contracted the varicella zoster virus.

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

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.

Chickenpox is a viral infection caused by the Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) transmitted via the respiratory route that causes itchy, blisters-like rashes usually lasting about 5-10 days. It is highly contagious transmitted by person to person contact (direct) from respiratory secretions or indirectly through contact with airborne respiratory droplets, via soiled inanimate objects infected by discharge from skin lesions, vesicle discharges or nasopharyngeal secretions. The incubation period lasts about 10-21 days and the disease is communicable 1-2 days