How often does chicken pox occur?

Answer 1

You only get it once.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Chicken Pox is a viral contagious disease that usually only effects a person once in a life time, as you build a natural immunity. It use to appear in preschools and elementary schools about this time of year, but since the onset of wide spread vaccination you don't often hear of anyone having the POX. Exposure occurs before the infected child has visible symptoms and it can take 21 days before the exposed child has the spots.

Answer 4

USUALLY once, but some unfortunate people manage to get it twice.

After a person has chickenpox, the virus typically lives silently in the nervous system of the body for the rest of a person's life. It may reactivate (come to life again) at any time when the body's immune defenses are weakened by stress or illness (such as cancer or HIV infection) or by medications that weaken the immune system. The most common reason for the virus to reactivate is getting older. Reactivation of the virus causes a condition called shingles, a painful blistering skin rash that typically occurs on the face, chest or back, in the same area where one or two of the body's sensory nerves travel.

Answer 5

Chicken pox infections occur year-round, most often during winter and spring. More than 90% of people throughout the world become infected with chickenpox at some point in their lives if they do not receive the chickenpox vaccine. In the United States, chickenpox is largely a disease of children. However, in other countries (particularly tropical countries), chickenpox occurs mainly in adults.

Answer 6

Chicken Pox only occurs once in a person's life time. It usually takes plae when you're young... However, that's not always the case!

Answer 7

To debunk the myths you have been told. Chicken pox can occur more then once. Why? With every virus, even tho you get rid of the symptoms of any virus. every virus that you get remains dormant (At rest), still in your body for the rest of your life. Later in life, the chicken pox virus that was at rest, can turn into shingles.

Answer 8

You get chicken pox once in your lifetime, but the virus encodes into your DNA and never leaves you. When you get older, if you get really stressed or your immune system weakens, you can get a reoccurence that is far more sever called SHINGLES. For some odd reason, shingles is on the rise right now.

Answer 9

ONCE

You are at risk for chickenpox if you have not had chickenpox or the vaccine and you:

Live with someone who has chickenpox.
Work or play indoors for more than 1 hour with someone who has chickenpox.
Are in the hospital and share a room with someone who later develops chickenpox or are cared for by a staff member who later develops chickenpox.
Have an impaired immune system.
Your risk of getting chickenpox is especially high if you are exposed to a household member with chickenpox because of the close contact. In addition, you may develop a more severe case than the person who infected you. Chickenpox is most contagious from 1 to 2 days before the rash appears until the blisters have dried and formed crusts.

If you get a chickenpox vaccination, you are contagious only if you develop blisters. You remain contagious as long as new spots continue to develop and until all blisters have crusted over.

Some people also are at increased risk of developing complications from chickenpox, such as newborns, teenagers, adults—especially pregnant women—and those with impaired immune systems.

Once you have had chickenpox, you become immune to the virus. It is possible that you may have a slight reaction after re-exposure, such as a few spots and slight fever. However, you will not get a full-blown case of chickenpox more than once.

Answer 10

You can get chicken pox up to three time in ones life time. Also once you have had it you are more likely to get shingles, which comes on with great stress

Answer 11

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