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Risk Factors List

  • Age 4 to 12 years old

Specific Risk Factors Articles

Chickenpox
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.
Source:ADAM
Date:July 26, 2007
Chickenpox
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.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Chickenpox
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.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Chickenpox
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.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Chicken Pox
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.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Varicella
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.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
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