Chickenpox is very contagious and is infectious until the last blister has burst and scabbed over. It is therefore very important to keep your little ones at home until all of the blisters have fully crusted over. This can be frustrating because it can mean having your child at home for abo...
1) In the first patient, it is her high fever and one-week sore throat. As for the second patient, it is his difficulty in swallowing due to inflamed tonsils. 2) Both patients have throat complications. However, the first patient fits the criteria of having mono: incubation time, sympto...
Logically, if the R0 is < 1, a disease outbreak should wane over time, and if it's > 1, cases should continue to increase.Seasonal flu, for example, has an R0 of around 1.5. The Spanish influenza of 1918-1919 had an R0 as high as 2.Chickenpox, which is fairly infectious, has an...
Unlike chickenpox, the rash of monkeypox is more concentrated on the face and extremities than on the trunk, with the face, palms and soles of the feet and oral mucosa involved in more than 70% of cases, and genital, conjunctival, or corneal lesions in about 1/3 of patients (1). ...