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[Pork Pie]

Working on finishing my barn today!!!
I'll pop in when I can!

Good luck - hope it works out

 

[room onthebroom]

Okay, short Marek's analogy for ya'll. (I recently read an article about how Marek's in chickens is helping unlock some of the issues with chickenpox, so here you go.)
Chickenpox is a herpes virus found in every human population. It is most contagious the day or two before a breakout, and in breakout form; although it can be transferred by any contact with bodily fluids.
Here's the tricky part. Not all people who are exposed will have a significant breakout, (although, thankfully with chickenpox, it has external, visible symptoms, so even a tiny breakout is noticeable) and some will have such a significant breakout that they suffer debilitating results. The ending result in either case is that regardless of the severity of the breakout, almost every human being - at some point in their lives- is a carrier for the virus.
Now, the even trickier part.
Person A never contracted the pox as a child, in fact, they were exposed multiple times throughout young adulthood as well, with no adverse effects. Resistant? Quite possibility. At age 39, however, immunity luck runs out and such a severe case ensues that hospitalization is required.
Person B - same scenario - develops shingles at age 64. Not resistant either.
Person C - same scenario. Dies at the ripe old age of 98, never having the dreaded disease. Resistant? A post mortem genetics test is possible - which may reveal some interesting scientific data. But true resistance can only be determined once the subject dies without having contracted the virus. eta: or without having had a breakout...the virus will probably still be found in their system.

And btw, here's the article to which I referred. The caption under the picture made me do a double-take.
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/vaccines-hitch-genomic-ride-ward-deadly-chicken-disease

Question on Person B... You can get shingles without having chicken pox???

Apparently, neither can old bald guys.

There's a story behind that. Apparently I made the cut, but the competition was steep.

I love stories!

I was told by my pediatrician when my daughter was a baby that the cold sore/ herpes virus is the exact same thing and that it can actually transfer to any nerve in your body once you have it. So I don't remember ever having a cold sore in my life. . but somehow my daughter got it when she was just a 3 or 4 month old baby. Because she was a baby it came out in her throat. . blisters in the throat and on the tongue of a baby still on a bottle can you imagine? It was HORRIBLE!
It did in fact transfer to another place on her body and we wound up in the er. One night being told they were going to report me to family services! By the grace of God they said they would wait until they confirmed with my pediatrician what I was telling them. They finally believed me after talking to her Dr. And let us go.

I think she got it in the nursery at the hospital.
She would also get extremely high fevers with it. This happened on and off for a few years. When she was old enough to take the chicken pox vaccine I reluctantly give it to her not knowing if it would help or hurt her. . she never broke out again after that. But the whole thing was a total nightmare!

Holy crow! That's terrifying!

View attachment 1181837 oh and deb. . you should totally start watching supernatural if for no other reason than to look at these two guys

I've tried it a couple times, but I watch tv alone in the middle of the night & its a little too scary for me right before bed.

Way too young! I'd feel like a chester.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Shade watches it and loves it... I just can't... the one on the right is not pretty enough to make up for the lack of brain matter for me...



Death to all raccoons!!!



Invite away!!!

Yup, I remember the surgery! And the feed trip! Poor JR!

Can't wait to see the pics!!!
Call if you need a distraction, and ear, or even just to scream from excitement!!

It does get pretty stupid sometimes lol

Question on Person B... You can get shingles without having chicken pox???






I love stories!






Holy crow! That's terrifying!






I've tried it a couple times, but I watch tv alone in the middle of the night & its a little too scary for me right before bed.

Well room. . .I didn't take ya for the fraidey cat type!
It's pretty violent but it's so cheesy I can't help but laugh

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

Good luck - hope it works out

Thank you...Me too!

Question on Person B... You can get shingles without having chicken pox???






I love stories!






Holy crow! That's terrifying!






I've tried it a couple times, but I watch tv alone in the middle of the night & its a little too scary for me right before bed.

Same here... I'd have nightmares.

Took a quick lunch break and a moment to check in... Watching for news from WV...
Check back in a bit..

 

[orrpeople]

Question on Person B... You can get shingles without having chicken pox??

You only have to be exposed to chickenpox, not actually manifest symptoms. But, yes, usually chickenpox is evident.

 

[room onthebroom]

It does get pretty stupid sometimes lol

Well room. . .I didn't take ya for the fraidey cat type!
It's pretty violent but it's so cheesy I can't help but laugh

It depends what the threat is. If its serial killers lurking by the coop, I'm a force to be reckoned with. If its ghosts, killing people in VW Bugs, on a desolate bridges I'm OUT!

 

[Alaskan]

four thirty am here.... leg cramp got me up at three...

going back to bed....

sorry about that. Sleep is so important.

Good morning, Pond Flockers. I'm waxing my lily pad this morning - then going to buff it with my butt. Trying to attract some company to the empty pad next to me.

Careful. Too much wax & you'll slide right off.


Good day Pondites. Happy hump day!!

Just don't wax the pad next to you or your company may end up in your lap!

Phewy! I got on too late, all of the witty comments that I thought of in regards to Sour's comment have already been made. OK...moving on.

View attachment 1181837 oh and deb. . you should totally start watching supernatural if for no other reason than to look at these two guys

why do they have no hair? what are they? 12???

Way too young! I'd feel like a chester.

chester? What is a chester?

 

[orrpeople]

Death to all raccoons!

It pulled one of my 55 Flowery hens' legs through an opening about 2" wide and ate it, along with some of her breast. We had to euthanize the poor thing as she had lost a lot of blood and was in shock. The really sad thing is that my to-do list has "make a covering for the opening in the 55 coop" on it. I have no one to blame but myself. But I still want to kill that chicken eating trash panda.

 

[perchie.girl]

Question on Person B... You can get shingles without having chicken pox???

You can carry the chicken pox virus without coming down with the symptoms. In my case I was immune to the symptoms. But if you had tested me for the titers it would have shown that I had been exposed and fought it off. it may have shown up in me as only a cold... when I was a child.

deb

 

[Alaskan]

It pulled one of my 55 Flowery hens' legs through an opening about 2" wide and ate it, along with some of her breast. We had to euthanize the poor thing as she had lost a lot of blood and was in shock. The really sad thing is that my to-do list has "make a covering for the opening in the 55 coop" on it. I have no one to blame but myself. But I still want to kill that chicken eating trash panda.

wow, so bad.

You can carry the chicken pox virus without coming down with the symptoms. In my case I was immune to the symptoms. But if you had tested me for the titers it would have shown that I had been exposed and fought it off. it may have shown up in me as only a cold... when I was a child.

deb

When my dad got chicken pox he got ONE pox. One single pox would be easy to miss.