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The Myth About Chicken Pox

Blisters about the size of a chickpea, a body temperature of around 38 degrees Centigrade, these are just the symptoms of the dreaded Chicken pox. People of any age could get the disease. Whether you’re just an infant, a toddler, an adolescent, a college student, a yuppie, or even if you’re already pensioned. You could even get the disease twice especially if the first chicken pox you had is not full-blown.

The usual question about chicken pox is when the hell it is contagious. The answer to this one is The Myth of the Cock-a-doodle-doo. The myth goes like this. Once upon a time in the jungle called Nekcihc, a little boy named Bargo got a disease. The witch doctor of the town let him stay put inside his tent. The doctor then gave a sign to the boy that he could now come out from his tent. Voila! Two days later, his friend Migo got the same disease. The witchdoctor of the jungle concluded that it’s contagious when it’s almost healing. This is the myth that we Filipinos believe. That’s why when someone’s gone a week or two because of the disease and that when he comes back, the people who have not acquired the disease would not dare go near that person. Please! Let us just stop believing the stupid myth of the cock-a-doodle-doo. What should we believe then? According to some paper I read from the internet, the chicken pox is usually contagious during the first two days the person has acquired it. Bleep! Bleep! That’s a warning sign for you guys. Don’t come on contact with the person who has got the chicken pox on its first two days. Believe me! You got an astounding 90 percent of acquiring the disease. You might be lucky if the disease comes from your crush. But if the disease comes from your enemy, I guess he’ll just be laughing himself out. Getting back to the facts, the explanation of why the myth comes into place is because that there is a so-called incubation period. The incubation period lasts for 7 to 21 days. That’s why we always thought that we get the disease by the time the person is healed well in fact that we already got it in the first place.

I am 20 years old, and it is just now that I have uncovered the hard facts about chicken pox. I can even say that my childhood is already complete. One time, our High School Physics teacher told us, “Your childhood is not complete if you have not played with your gigantic magnifying lens and used it to burn ants, have not destroyed your toys, and most especially have not gotten chicken pox”. Yes, indeed, my childhood is complete. But, I just don’t want to have another chicken pox anymore, once is enough.