Chicken pox is a highly contagious infection. Chicken pox is caused by varicella-zoster virus. Many children acquire chicken pox.
Chicken pox can be spreads through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. When a non-infected person breathes in the virus they become infected.
Before getting the virus, you can get a vaccine that prevents you from getting chicken pox.
A sign of chicken pox is rashes that appear up to 7 days after receiving the virus. other symptoms are red blisters, itching, tiredness, fever, abdominal pain, mild headache and a dry cough.
There are not many treatments for chicken pox. Some say that calamine lotion helps. Also oatmeal baths help stop the blisters from itching.