Treatment and prevention of chicken pox
Chicken pox – an acute infectious disease of the virus nature. Chicken pox belongs to group антропонозов, i.e. it the person is ill only and to catch chicken pox from animals and birds it is impossible by definition. In most cases children at the age from 5 till 9-10 years are ill. Adults are ill seldom, but in case of infection the disease at them proceeds especially hard. The causative agent of chicken pox (Varicella) is the virus Varicella-zoster virus relating to DNA family - the containing viruses Herpetoviridae. So detailed description of family of viruses is possible and won't be interesting to the ordinary reader, but Herpes zoster belongs to Herpetoviridae family – the virus of herpes causing also shingles also. Moreover – many experts consider that the virus of chicken pox and a virus of herpes is the same virus which at the first hit in an organism causes chicken pox and the long time remains in cages of a spinal cord, and at decrease in immunity is shown...