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Viral Name: Chicken Pox
DNA or RNA : ?
Transmission : ?
Symptoms : ?
Interesting Fact : ?

5.) Viral Name: Small Pox
DNA or RNA : ?
Transmission : ?
Symptoms : ?
Interesting Fact : ?

Thanks for any help-

2007-02-05 08:50:09 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Biology

3 answers

Chicken pox (Variciella virus)

DNA virus, transmitted by direct contact or airborne, causes characteristic red blister like bumps.

Chicken pox was originally thought to be a mild form of smallpox, and it was treated with oatmeal on the lesions.


Small pox:

DNA virus, transmitted through contact or occaisionally airborne. Also causes pimple like lesions that swell up and break. In the fatal form of the disease the lesions continue to grow until the skin starts to detach.

Small pox was the first virus that a vaccine was developed for, and it is the only virus to be eradicated from the world (in theory).

2007-02-05 09:12:05 · answer #1 · answered by floundering penguins 5 · 0 0

Viral Name: Chicken Pox
DNA or RNA : DNA
Transmission : it's a viral disease.. caused by varicella-zoster virus (VZV), also known as human herpes virus 3.
It can spread through direct contact with the virus, like touching a blister, or the liquid from a blister. It can go in through your nose or mouth or some wound... it won't just.. go through your skin.
Also, a pregnant woman with chickenpox can pass it on to her baby before birth or a mother with chickenpox can also give it to her newborn baby after birth.
Symptoms : It usually starts with a small fever and then characteristic spots appear mostly on the body and head. These itch but they heal mostly without scarring.. unless you REALLY scratch them.
Interesting Fact : doesn't affect hands and feet (usually)

Viral Name: Small Pox
DNA or RNA : DNA
Transmission : caused by either of two virus variants named Variola major (higher mortality rate.. 20-40%) and Variola minor. Can be transmited through prolonged social contact, direct contact with infected body fluids or contaminated objects. Infection in the natural disease will be via the lungs.
Symptoms: pimples grow into vesicles, and then fill up with pus and stand out on the skin separately, or they can merge and form sort of sheets which begin to detach the outer layers of skin from the underlying flesh, this is what causes most of the deaths.
Interesting Fact : unique to humans, affect palms of hands and soles of feet.

2007-02-05 09:24:50 · answer #2 · answered by anna 3 · 0 0

You need to check each of these on google or another website.

2007-02-05 08:59:59 · answer #3 · answered by science teacher 7 · 0 0

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