Tuesday, September 30, 2008
♥ DAY 2: I'm down with Chicken Pox
You know what? I have always wondered why chicken pox is called chicken pox.
Why can't it be pork pox, mutton pox, beef pox or fish pox?
So i went wikipedia to look for info and in the end, i found these:
In England and Wales, 75% of deaths due to chickenpox are in adults.
I think I just found another reason for not sleeping tonight.
PS: Thanks to all for your concern. I will bear in mind not to scratch!
13 days to go!
Why can't it be pork pox, mutton pox, beef pox or fish pox?
So i went wikipedia to look for info and in the end, i found these:
- Some guy suggested that the disease was "less dangerous", thus a "chicken" version of the pox
- the specks that appear looked as though the skin was pecked by chickens
- the disease was named after chick peas, from a supposed similarity in size of the seed to the lesions
As "pox" also means curse, in medieval times some believed it was a plague brought on to curse children by the use of black magic.
Then I came across this:In England and Wales, 75% of deaths due to chickenpox are in adults.
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I think I just found another reason for not sleeping tonight.
PS: Thanks to all for your concern. I will bear in mind not to scratch!
13 days to go!
Labels: Chicken pox
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