If chicken pox is contagious, how did it start?

Question

just wondering.

Answer 1

It is a virus and it evolved.

A virus is a semi-organism that is smaller than a single cell. There are millions and millions of viruses that affect various species. Once upon a time a virus evolved that was able to attack the human body and create chicken pox. Before that it was a virus that was in another animal, or one that couldn't work, or something else.

A virus has the same goal of cancer. A virus sends its DNA in to hijack the cell and make it produce more viruses. If it does this enough then the person gets sick. Some organisms have "quorum sensing" so they know not to attack when they don't have a large enough Army to make an attack possible. Successful viruses may have this sense, and that explains why I may have chicken pox virus in my bloodstream at this moment.

I have had chicken pox before so my body's immune system knows the virus and knows it is a threat that needs to be attacked. The body remembers this for most of your life, unfortunately when a virus mutates, the cold and flu do every year, and then your body needs to learn the new virus code to be able to fight it.

AIDS is so dangerous because some of the cells that it targets are those that are part of the immune system. No one dies by AIDS they die out of complications from AIDS when their body gets so sick and the immune system so weak that it can't fight off any disease. Eventually those diseases; germs and viruses that naturally exist in our bodies over power the patient and kill them.

Jonas Salk once feared that his famous Polio Vaccine may somehow have mutated to have created AIDS. There is also a theory that it started in hogs in Africa. That means that someone would have to have had sex with a pig or have somehow exchanged body fluids with it. Once that happened one mutation of the pig species found it could attack humans and the virus was born.

No matter how it was born viruses are dangerous because they are all around us and they mutate frequently. The Avian Flu hasn't gone away, it just isn't around that much, but it lies somewhere in Southeast Asia. The Avian Flu was so dangerous because we didn't have any treatments for it, antibiotics don't work on viruses. If the virus had jumped the species barrier then it could have infected humans. The last major plague in the US was the Spanish Flu creating the 1918 flu pandemic.

We know how to treat flu better today, but if Spanish Flu resurfaced, or if something similar came up we could have another epidemic. It will hit the worst in the underdeveloped world, but thanks to air travel it will travel across the world quickly.

The flu gets its start each year in Southeast Asia and China where the people still live with their livestock. One species of existing flu mutates and jumps the species barrier hitting humans and the new flu virus is born.

Answer 2

I agree totally with Robert. If you go to homecoming you will infect many of the people there. Do you really want to be responsible for that? Keep in mind that those who get chickenpox when they are younger become at risk for Shingles when they are older so you would be doubling your classmates risk of disease. Sometimes you just can't do everything you want to do. Chicken pox is very contagious! Your attitude about not calling the doctor is really dumb and irresponsible.

Answer 3

Yes it is contagious. I caught them from my cousin. We were in the same room for less than five minutes.

Answer 4

look it up on the internet or ask a doctor

Answer 5

chickens

Answer 6

which came first...the chicken or the egg??

Answer 7

a virus, that evolved so that it could be contracted by humans.

Answer 8

it started as a virus- virus's spread

Answer 9

from something... .ask a doctor...