Chicken pox, also scientifically known as the varicella zoster virus, is a highly contagious disease. It is most common in children, but most people will get chickenpox at some point in their lives if they have not had the chickenpox vaccine.

People who get the virus often develop a rash of spots that look like blisters all over their bodies. These blisters develop into cloudy sores, which finally become dry brown crusts. . The disease typically makes children tired and slightly feverish. Winter and spring are the most common times of the year for chickenpox to occur.

• The illness can be communicated through the air by droplets and can spread easily from person to person by direct contact or through the air from an infected person’s coughing or sneezing.
• Activities such as laughing with and talking to an infected individual are sufficient to transmit the viral particles.
• You can also get it if you touch the fluid from a chickenpox blister.
• It also can be transmitted indirectly by contact with articles of clothing and other items exposed to fresh drainage from open sores.
• You can also get it by sharing eating utensils, food, smoking materials or allow others to drink after you.