You get chicken pox from a person infected with the virus that causes it, Herpes Zoster. Chickenpox usually occurs on the scalp, face, and torso. That doesn't mean they can't appear elsewhere - I had...
Chicken pox is called so because when the first case was described, it was said that the red dots looked like chick peas, a type of vegetable, that had been stuck to the skin. So people started...