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… you get bumps all over your body. The cause of the chicken pox is the virus varicella. Males and females are both able to get the virus, but children ages five to six are the most likely to be infected.Like I said chicken pox is caused by the…

… by a herpesvirus called varicella-zoster virus (7). Chickenpox is one of the most easily transmitted of contagious diseases (5). Ninety to ninety-five percent of the people exposed to the virus will develop it within twenty-one days (5). The…

… one and a half years of life. Developing not only physically, but mentally, emotionally, and socially as well, this development has been evident in providing a strong background for further development in life. Physical development refers to a baby’s…

… that consumes, shatters lives, even kills. It is an obsession that takes away from their joy, their curiosity, their energy and their sense of normal life. To be overweight is to fail. It is irrational, but children are succumbing to the same destruct…

… the world around him. This is called philosophy, a Greek word which means "love of wisdom." However, over the millennia it has come to mean much more. The philosophies of the ancient Chinese people, whether they explain nature or present ways…

… to be successful through the years, is an alternative to conventional medicine. Instead of internally medicating the body, we asked of medicine: why drug the entire body when only one organ is sick. May it be a liver, a spleen, a lung and or a…

… infection in the United States. It strikes about 4 million people a year in the U.S.. 100,000 women become infertile each year from a pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), which plugs up or scars the filopian tubes, so the egg can’t reach the…

… trachomatis, hence the name; Chlamydia The word chlamys is Greek for "cloak draped around the shoulder.” This describes how the intracytoplasmic inclusions caused by the bacterium are "draped" around the infected cell's nucleus. Scientists…

… bacterial sexually transmitted disease in the United States today. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 4 million new cases occur each year. The highest rates of chlamydial infection are in 15 to 19-year old adole…

… In group 17 of the periodic table, chlorine is one of the halogens. The atomic number of chlorine is 17. Chlorine is a greenish yellow gas, which combines directly with nearly all elements. It is a gas at normal temperature and pressure, but…