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  2. These Pictures Will Help You Identify the Most Common Skin Rashes

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    Other symptoms to note: Chicken pox rashes typically start toward the middle of the body and work outward toward the extremities. It can often cause pockmarked scars after the blisters heal.

  3. Chickenpox - Wikipedia

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    Because chickenpox is usually more severe in adults than it is in children, some parents deliberately expose their children to the virus, for example by taking them to "chickenpox parties". [88] Doctors say that children are safer getting the vaccine, which is a weakened form of the virus, than getting the disease, which can be fatal or lead to ...

  4. These Pictures Will Help You Figure Out What That Weird Rash ...

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    Chicken Pox. Luckily, chicken pox is rarely seen these days thanks to a vaccine, but it can still happen and presents as red, itchy, fluid-filled blisters, says Dr. Ansell.

  5. Varicella zoster virus - Wikipedia

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    It causes chickenpox (varicella) commonly affecting children and young adults, and shingles (herpes zoster) in adults but rarely in children. As a late complication of VZV infection, Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 2 may develop in rare cases. VZV infections are species-specific to humans. The virus can survive in external environments for a few hours.

  6. Rash - Wikipedia

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    A rash is a change of the skin that affects its color, appearance, or texture. A rash may be localized in one part of the body, or affect all the skin. Rashes may cause the skin to change color, itch, become warm, bumpy, chapped, dry, cracked or blistered, swell, and may be painful. The causes, and therefore treatments for rashes, vary widely.

  7. Chickenpox is 'incredibly contagious' and not 'trivial,' say ...

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    Chicken pox can cause up to 500 itchy blisters that dry up and form scabs in four or five days, the CDC says. It can be particularly serious in babies, adults and people with weak immune systems.

  8. Shingles - Wikipedia

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    Shingles, also known as herpes zoster or zona, [6] is a viral disease characterized by a painful skin rash with blisters in a localized area. [2] [7] Typically the rash occurs in a single, wide mark either on the left or right side of the body or face. [1]

  9. Herpes gladiatorum - Wikipedia

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    Herpes gladiatorum is a skin infection primarily caused by the herpes simplex virus. The virus infects the cells in the epidermal layer of the skin. The initial viral replication occurs at the entry site in the skin or mucous membrane. [7] The infections caused by a HSV Type 1 virus may be primary or recurrent. [8]