Why are chicken pox called chicken pox?(please only give facts/statements and need by tomorrow if possible)
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There are many explanations offered for the origin of the name chickenpox: - Samuel Johnson suggested that the disease was "no very great danger", 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; - the term reflects a corruption of the Old English word giccin, which meant itching. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenpox
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There are various explanations. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_pox
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