At what age did you get chicken pox?

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Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease caused by primary infection with varicella zoster virus (VZV).[1] It usually starts with a vesicular skin rash mainly on the body and head rather than on the limbs. The rash develops into itchy, raw pockmarks, which mostly heal without scarring. On examination, the observer typically finds skin lesions at various stages of healing and also ulcers in the oral cavity and tonsil areas. The disease is most commonly observed in children.

Chickenpox is an airborne disease which spreads easily through coughing or sneezing by ill individuals or through direct contact with secretions from the rash. A person with chickenpox is infectious one to two days before the rash appears.[2] They remain contagious until all lesions have crusted over (this takes approximately six days).[3] Immunocompromised patients are contagious during the entire period as new lesions keep appearing. Crusted lesions are not contagious.[4]

Chickenpox has been observed in other primates, including chimpanzees[5] and gorillas.[6]

The origin of the term chicken pox, which is recorded as being used since 1684,[7] is not reliably known. It has been said to be a derived from chickpeas, based on resemblance of the vesicles to chickpeas,[7][8][9] or to come from the rash resembling chicken pecks.[7][9] Other suggestions include the designation chicken for a child (i.e., literally 'child pox'), a corruption of itching-pox,[8][10] or the idea that the disease may have originated in chickens.[7] Samuel Johnson explained the designation as "from its being of no very great danger."[11]
 

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I never got it either, but I remember I got vaccinated for chicken pox at school and then I got vaccinated again before I left for Cuba last year.
 

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I heard babies can die from chicken pox. What a fukked up way for a kid to go out
 
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