Why is chickenpox is called chickenpox, what has it got to do with chickens?

Answer:
One history of medicine book credits Giovanni Filippo (1510鈥?580) of Palermo with the first description of varicella (chickenpox). Subsequently in the 1600s, an English physician named Richard Morton described what he thought a mild form of smallpox as "chicken pox." Later, in 1767, a physician named William Heberden, also from England, was the first physician to clearly demonstrate that chickenpox was different from smallpox. However, it is believed the name chickenpox was commonly used in earlier centuries before doctors identified the disease.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.
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.

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does the vaccine come from chickens?

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not sure on that one.
Found a website it will tell you all you need to know

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doc named Richard Morton described what was a mild form of smallpox as "chicken pox." turned out to be something different. the name stuck

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a chickens skin is lumpy like pimples
you get with chicken pox that's why??

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prob cos it looks like chickens have bin peakin at u
and its a great way of teasing younger family members when they have it by sayin that they are turnin into a chicken

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