| 31. | What it is : Chicken pox is caused by a virus called varicella, related to the herpes family.
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| 32. | The reactivation of the varicella virus in nerves that control pain and sensation often winds up destroying those nerves.
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| 33. | Even before the eruption of vesicles, varicella zoster virus can be detected from the skin of the ear.
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| 34. | Aciclovir is recommended by the CDC for treatment of Varicella during pregnancy, especially during the second and third trimesters
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| 35. | I am not suggesting all children should be vaccinated against varicella zoster, but have you thought about this?
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| 36. | They showed that chickenpox ( varicella ) and shingles ( herpes zoster ) are both caused by this virus.
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| 37. | Chicken pox, caused by the varicella zoster virus, is contracted by nearly 95 percent of Americans by adulthood.
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| 38. | Before the chickenpox, or varicella, vaccine was developed in 1995, about 4 million children developed the disease.
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| 39. | The characteristic skin lesions of a varicella zoster virus ( VZV ) infection are called " chickenpox ".
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| 40. | The Varicella zoster virus disease ( shingles ) can attack nerves causing numbness instead of pain commonly associated with shingles.
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