true or false:the first cases of human chicken pox were contracted from chickens>?

Answer 1

Great Question! I did some research on it and here is what I found....

-Samuel Johnson suggested that the disease was "no very great danger", thus a "chicken" version of the pox;
-the specks that appear looked as though the skin was pecked by chickens;
-the disease was named after chick peas, from a supposed similarity in size of the seed to the lesions;
-the term reflects a corruption of the Old English word giccin, which meant itching.
-As "pox" also means curse, in medieval times some believed it was a plague brought on to curse children by the use of black magic.

Thanks for the intruiging question! I had fun looking it up!

Answer 2

false.

It were named because it was similar to smallpox (when it was still around) but much less harmless, and a chicken in a way represented something weak but annoying.

That was basically what happened, although I did a really bad job of phrasing it.

Answer 3

False. The disease has nothing to do with chickens, and they cannot transmit it.