How did the first ever person to have Chicken Pox get it?
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Chicken pox is far too old a disease to be able to answer that question but here's some stuff about the history of it:\n\nOne history of medicine book claims Giovanni Filippo (1510–1580) of Palermo gave the first description of varicella (chickenpox). Subsequently in the 1600s, an English physician named Richard Morton described what he thought was a mild form of smallpox as "chicken pox." Later, in 1767, a physician named William Heberden, also from England, was the first physician to clearly demonstrate that chickenpox was different from smallpox. However, it is believed the name chickenpox was commonly used in earlier centuries before doctors identified the disease.\n\nThere are many explanations offered for the origin of the name chickenpox:\n\nthe specks that appear looked as though the skin was picked by chickens, \n\nthe disease was named after chick peas, from a supposed similarity in size of the seed to the lesions \n\nSamuel Johnson suggested that the disease was "no very great danger," thus a "chicken" version of the pox \n\nthe term reflects a corruption of the Old English word, "giccin", which meant "itching
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I have a lot but the one that stands out is when I was about 4 or 5.  I had chicken pox and I can remember my mom kneeling at me and dabbing calamine lotion on my pox.  It means a lot to me because she passed away 5 years ago and a couple of years before that, we had problems.  As simple as this memory is, it showed how much she loved me.
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I would say Chicken Pox. Is the rash itchy?
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You can find out all you want here:\n\n\n\nhttp://www.orlandoskindoc.com/varicella%20zoster.htm
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The vaccine against tetanus was discovered by the German bacteriologist Emil Adolf von Behring (1854–1917) in 1890. Behring was working at the time in the laboratory of the great bacteriologist Robert Koch. One of Behring's colleagues in Koch's laboratory was the Japanese bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato.\n\nBehring and Shibasaburo were especially interested in two terrible diseases, diphtheria and tetanus. Behring had an idea that a vaccine against both diseases might be possible by producing an "antitoxin" against them. He made the antitoxin in the following way:\n\nFirst, he injected the bacteria that cause tetanus into an experimental animal, such as a rabbit. Then, he removed blood from the infected animal. Next, he injected that blood into a second animal, such as a horse. Finally, he removed blood from the second animal. From this blood, he made a vaccine to be used with humans.\n\nBehring's idea was later developed more fully by his colleague Paul Ehrlich. The vaccine developed by Behring and Ehrlich later became part of the DPT (diphtheria/tetanus/pertussis) vaccine that nearly all young children receive today. For his invention of the vaccine, Behring was awarded the first Nobel Prize in medicine in physiology in 1901.
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Could you be thinking of "pox" rather than "poke"?  The KhoiKhoi people of southern Africa were devastated by a smallpox epidemic.  You can find a lot of information via google.
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No, I don't believe so.  You can only have shingles after you've had the chicken pox virus.  I'd have it checked out immediately though.  There's so many things it could be!
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Yes, chicken pox is communicable.  Contagious or "catching," are other terms meaning roughly the same thing.  Colds, flu, all that stuff are communicable, as are measles, mumps, whooping cough; the ones you get vaccinated for as a little kid.
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Did you get chikcen pox? I mean, I don't know how old you are...
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Epstein bar virus causes shingles in adults that had chicken pox when they were kids.
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Once you have chickenpox, you are considered immune; you will not have a serious infection again, but you may have a mild infection (called a breakthrough infection). Generally, if the virus becomes active again, it will not result in chickenpox but can cause shingles, or herpes zoster.
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The Chicken came first. :)
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i know africans vaccinated against the disease for centuries by using ground up scabs from the lesions of infected people, and george washington vaccinated his troops at valley forge using that method which they learned from slaves. dont know anything else about the history of smallpox though
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Chicken Pox (Varicella)\nA highly contagious and common viral infection that causes a rash. Chicken pox infections occur year-round, most often during winter and spring.\nWhat are the symptoms?\n\nThe incubation period—the time from exposure to the chicken pox virus until you develop symptoms—is usually 14 to 16 days but can be from 10 to 21 days. You or your child may feel sick and have a fever for 1 or 2 days before the chicken pox rash  develops. The most distinctive sign of infection is an itchy rash of red spots and blisters. Some children may have a worse rash and more symptoms than others.\n\nIt takes about 1 or 2 days for a chicken pox red spot (macule) to go through all of its stages, including blistering, bursting, drying, and crusting over. New red spots continue to develop every day for as long as 5 to 7 days. Symptoms usually last about 10 days.\n\nChildren usually can return to school or daycare when they stop developing new red spots.\n\nTeenagers, adults—especially pregnant women—and anyone with other conditions or illnesses should see a health professional.\n\nAs for shingles, you can only GET SHINGLES IF YOU HAVE HAD CHICKEN POX, the virus lays dormant, and may reactivate, when stressed, or some virus etc.\n\nShingles\nShingles is a disease caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox. After you have had chickenpox, the chickenpox virus remains inactive in your body in certain nerves. If the virus does become active again, usually later in life, it causes shingles. Shingle is very painful.\n\nMy husband is a insulin diabetic, and came down with chicken pox, from our daughter, with in a fortnight of her coming down with them. And was very ill. \n\nPlease if you believe your son has chicken pox please seek medical assistance immediately, especially as he has a disability.\n\nI seriously hope he has not got chicken pox, if he does your in for a rough ride. \n\nTake care and good luck.
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I had chicken pox(yes, confirmed by Doc, not shingles) when I was 23. It started out with feeling unwell then turned into pleurisy(inflammation of the lining of the lungs)and I whistled like a tea kettle and could not inhale deeply without doubling over.The next day the spots appeared. My sons were 1 and 4 at the time and I gave it to them. It lasted for weeks and I had to go to the doctors every other day so he could make sure I did not get pneumonia. I had them on my palms, my soles of my feet, even my gums!(couldn't brush because they'd pop and spread.) I laid on the couch sick as a dog for 2 weeks until the baby got them too.He was relentless because every time I would lay down he would come pick my spots.I have 3 scars on my face from him. We laugh about this now that he's 11 but it wasn't fun at the time.
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The chicken pox is a disease that when I was a kid  parents would and try and exposed their kids  to it.. If you haven't had it when your a kid and get it when your are your an adult it could kill you.  Chicken Pox its like having Poison Ivy, really itchy.  They just came out with the vaccination not to long ago.  Its supposed to make you immune to it that you will not get it.
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C. tetani was first discovered by Arthur Nicolaier in 1884 and isolated by Shibasabura Kitsato (Japan) in 1889. The first treatment was the tetanus antitoxin, developed in Germany by Emil von Behring, who received the first Nobel Prize for Medicine, and later at the New York City Health Department. The tetanus toxoid, which induces active immunity, was developed at the Pasteur Institute in 1923. Interestingly, the incidence of tetanus in New York City decreased dramatically between 1900 and 1930, not because of the use of the antitoxin but because of the decrease in the number of horses in the city following the introduction of the automobile. Persons receiving wounds were less likely to have them contaminated by horse droppings, a rich source of C. tetani spores. The conception that tetanus results from rusty nails probably originates from the close association of rusty nails, barns and horses, common before the early 20th century. In WWII, American forces only suffered 16 cases of tetanus and 6 deaths, thanks to routine tetanus toxoid immunization. The German army used only the antitoxin and suffered much higher losses due to tetanus. Use of the toxoid was restricted to the Luftwaffe, the German air force.