Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV). The virus is transmitted through direct ...

The chicken pox vaccine became available in the U.S. in 1995 and, since then, cases of the virus in the U.S. have plummeted. But chicken pox still emerges from time to time. Montana public health ...

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

Children in the South West can now get what has been described as a "historic" free vaccination against chickenpox from the ...

The NHS is rolling out out a vaccine for young children that protects against chickenpox. For the first time, youngsters ...

Kentucky’s largest city is seeing a “spike” in probable and confirmed cases of the highly contagious chickenpox, all of which have been in unvaccinated people or in babies too young to be inoculated, ...

Yes and no. You can’t catch shingles from another person. But shingles is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox. The virus, called varicella zoster, can be spread by person-to-person ...

IT’S a common childhood illness that most people think they can easily spot… thanks to that tell-tale rash. But chickenpox ...

The NHS explain s that the rash of spots on your child's body can take on a variety of colours (pink, red, or darker than the ...

A vaccine against chickenpox will be added to the routine NHS childhood vaccination programme - here's everything you need to ...

Chickenpox vaccine will be added to the NHS childhood immunisation programme, explaining why the rollout is happening now, ...