Project: Chicken Pox

    For the last few weeks we have been doing projects on diseases and here is my project on chicken pox.
What are chicken pox?

Chicken pox  are a disease that are pimples that can get really itchy and pussy . It is an infection with varicella zoster virus. Some animals like gorillas and chimpanzees get them quite often and you can sometimes catch chicken pox off them.

Why are they called chicken pox?

They are called chicken pox because they looked like chick peas so they made it into chicken pox. And chick peas are a food that are brown. Chicken pox  were called pimples before chickenpox and the have not been called chicken pox for the whole time.

A cool fact:

You will only get chicken pox once in your life if you have the bad

How contagious are they and what can you do to stop them spreading?

Chicken pox are  very contagious and It spreads through sneezing and illness.  You can stop them spreading by not getting to close to the person with the chicken pox and not sharing anything like a drink bottle or something like that with that person.

Do you get them all over your body? You can get them everywhere  on your body and they get really itchy and there lots of them and they can get really big. They can get really big on your head and you can get so many that you can hardly see your skin it just looks like you're really