Can you pass chicken pox on to a third person?!
Question: Hi
Can you carry the virus on you and pass on to another or is it only contracted from the person who has the virus to another?
Answers: Hi
Can you carry the virus on you and pass on to another or is it only contracted from the person who has the virus to another?
There is no exclusion of secondary contacts as you must contract the disease to pass it on. Your mother would almost certainly have had chickenpox when young, she would thus be immune and since she cannot then catch it again she can't infect anyone else.
ill put it this way if i had it and you came in contact with me you could give it to anyone you came in contact wiht
more the merrier.the qiucker it is out the better.in my childhood days if anybody had measles or chicken pox in our street our parents would take you to their houses.
You can only contract chicken pox from someone who is infected.
One has to be infected and have a rash to pass it on. If your mother feels well she hasn't got the disease so she cannot pass it on,
Yes anyone can pass it. If you contract it as a secondary infection it is usually 10 times as bad as the original person's symptoms. If you catch it as an adult - be prepared to feel severely crap and VERY spotty.
Chicken pox is a variant of the Herpes virus, if you have it you can pass it on to some one else that you have come into contact with and you are at your most contagious before the spots, sometimes called blisters, develop.
However once you have had chicken pox you will continue to carry the virus in your system and if you come into contact with some one with chicken pox you may get shingles.
It is possible to touch someone who has the obvious chicken pox rash, carry the virus in your body, not develop the chicken pox rash, and pass the virus on to someone else. Your immune system would have to be so good as to be able to fight the chicken pox virus when it enters your body that you do not end up with the signs and symptoms (the rash).
Caution: Just because you aren't vaccinated against chicken pox and you haven't caught chicken pox yet even though everyone around you seems to have at one point or another does NOT mean you are immune. People can catch chicken pox in their adulthood, and it can be worse than if they had caught it at as a child. If you do not have the vaccine or the sickness by the time you reach 18, look into getting the vaccine. You do NOT want to be in college or at a job and have to miss a week of work (or end up in the hospital).
Also, with shingles, you don't come into contact with someone else to get it. The virus can enter your nerve cells, lie dormant in your body for years, then suddenly pop back up in the form of shingles.
I am going to say no, you can't carry the virus (without yourself being affected) and then pass it to someone else. It is only contracted from contact with an infected person. To back this up here is something I found:
"Chicken pox is acquired by direct contact with infected blister fluid or by inhalation of respiratory droplets. When a person with chicken pox coughs or sneezes, they expel tiny droplets that carry the virus. A person who has never been exposed to chicken pox inhales these droplets and the virus enters the lungs, and then is carried through the bloodstream to the skin where it causes a rash. While the virus is in the bloodstream (before the rash begins) it causes typical viral symptoms like fever, fatigue, joint pains, headache, and swollen glands. These symptoms usually resolve by the time the rash develops. The incubation period of chicken pox averages 14 days with a range of 9 to 21 days."
I caught it last year as an adult and I would not wish that on anyone