I'm in the mood for some chciken...

   Hm I am really in the mood for some chicken. Maybe I should stop by Chick-Fil-A. Ooh Ooh I know! I should go to--- oh sorry! I never noticed you guys there! Well since I'm in the mood for something chicken related, let's talk about the chicken pox! Now, does anyone know anything about it? (IT COMES FROM A CHICKEN!) No, Brittney, chicken pox does not come from a chicken. Chicken pox is a viral disease. This means that the actual chicken pox comes from a virus. The virus has a weirdly-cool name, it's called the varicella-zoster virus, or VZV.

it kinda looks like eggs sunny side up...

   So when you heard of chicken pox, what do you think of? (A BEAVER) OK Brittney, I don't see how you got beaver out of chicken pox but ok. Anyways, when you hear "chicken pox" you usually think of red dots all of your body and and they're really itchy. All of that is true, but there's more than just that. First, you're in the incubation period. This is where you have the virus, but you don't know. When you're in the incubation period, you feel completely fine. It go on for 10-21 days!



this is how you feel















   Now let's talk more about the symptoms. After the incubation period, you start to feel a bit sick. Kinda like you have the flu. Then the famous rash begins. You start having red blotches on your body. The worst part is the itch!!! It itches like itchy red blotches! But to make it even worse, you can't itch. If you do, it'll leave a scar. So imagine you have a million mosquito bites all over you and you can't itch! Eventually after a couple days, your blotches start falling off. Yuck.



that is really gross


















   I know it may seem like you're doomed and you must get it. But you actually don't. They do have vaccines to help prevent you from getting it. Also, you usuallly get it when you're a kid, but some adults do get it. One more thing, when you finish with your horrible time with the chiken pox, your not actually done forever. That virus doesn't just "go away." It just stays there and doesn't do anything until ur about 60 or 70. Then you have something called shingles. But that's a different topic for a different day. Well that's all for today. Here's a cool pic for ya! Bye everyone!!! Science Fun:)



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