How is the Chicken Pox spread?
How do you get Chicken pox? Is it usually normal in the summer time?
Chicken pox is a highly contagious disease that you get from contact with another person who is carrying the virus. You don’t need close contact as the virus is so contagious that you can catch it from someone who is just in the same building. The cough of an infected person in one part of the building can send virus particles through the ventilation system throughout the entire building. Chicken pox occurs year round but is more common in the winter. Now that there is a safe and effective vaccine, it is no longer considered “normal” to have chicken pox. Though most children had only moderate illness before the vaccine became available, 40-60 healthy children died each year in the United States from complications of Chicken pox.
