CHICKENPOX jabs will be offered to all children on the NHS for the first time from today. Vaccination against the varicella ...

Wales will begin rolling out the varicella (chickenpox) vaccine for children aged 12 to 18 months starting January 2, as part ...

Children in Wales as young as one are to be offered protection against chickenpox. A new vaccination programme launched in ...

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Youngsters across the country will now be offered the vaccine along with the MMR jab, which protects against measles, mumps ...

From today the MMRV vaccine is in the routine vaccinations for babies and toddlers, to reduce chickenpox cases and hospital ...

Hundreds of thousands of families with young children will be offered protection against chickenpox as part of their routine childhood vaccinations from today. The NHS’s vaccina ...

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Wales’ Chief Medical Officer, Professor Isabel Oliver, said: “Chickenpox is a very infectious disease. It is very common.