True or false:the first cases of human chicken pox were contracted from chickens>?

Great Question! I did some research on it and here is what I found....





-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.


-As ';pox'; also means curse, in medieval times some believed it was a plague brought on to curse children by the use of black magic.





Thanks for the intruiging question! I had fun looking it up!True or false:the first cases of human chicken pox were contracted from chickens%26gt;?
False. The disease has nothing to do with chickens, and they cannot transmit it.True or false:the first cases of human chicken pox were contracted from chickens%26gt;?
false.





It were named because it was similar to smallpox (when it was still around) but much less harmless, and a chicken in a way represented something weak but annoying.





That was basically what happened, although I did a really bad job of phrasing it.