What is the scientific name for chicken pox?

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also, what causes chicken pox? exact question: what is the scientific name of the agent or pathogen that causes the disease?

What is the scientific name for chicken pox?
varicella zoster virus
Reply:Causes Of Chicken Pox





* Inhalation of airborne respiratory droplets of an infected person


* Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) %26lt;%26lt;%26lt;%26lt;%26lt;THIS IS THE PATHOGEN.


* Contact with broken chickenpox blisters


* Weak immune system


* Persistent wrong feeding of children





Varicella is transmitted by direct contact (primarily with respiratory secretions; less often with skin lesions) and respiratory droplets. The incubation period lasts from 13 to 17 days. It鈥檚 probably communicable from 1 day before lesions erupt to 6 days after vesicles form (it鈥檚 most contagious in the early stages of eruption of skin lesions).

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