You do not have to wait until his skin looks completely clear. Children can also catch chickenpox if exposed to an adult with shingles as the same virus (the varicella zoster virus) causes both ...

Smallpox, chickenpox, cowpox, and monkeypox are all “pox” diseases, referring to skin infections with eruptive sores. But chickenpox is different from the others caused by orthopoxviruses ...

Chickenpox is a common and highly infectious disease caused by the Herpes varicella virus. After an incubation period of 14 to 21 days the illness starts with fever and generally feeling unwell.

Four Northeastern University graduate students were diagnosed with chickenpox and are isolating, the university’s health and counseling services told students in an email Friday. The students ...

LAKE COUNTY, Ohio (WJW) – A school district in Lake County has alerted the community that they are monitoring what could become an ‘outbreak’ of chickenpox. According to the Madison Local ...

There’s a strange thing about chickenpox (or varicella, to give it its formal name). We know it’s an incredibly contagious disease, and in some rare cases it can have serious complications ...

Some of the more well-known types of viral rashes include chickenpox, rubella, and measles. Fortunately, your rash symptoms often go away as you gradually recover from the infection. Chickenpox is ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - Four Northeastern graduate students were diagnosed with chickenpox, the university announced in a campus-wide email Friday. All four students, who live off campus, are isolating ...

Chickenpox isn't much fun - and that's for everyone involved. For a child with chickenpox it can feel horrible, itchy and ...

These two reports address the effects of varicella-zoster vaccination and varicella vaccination. Richard Whitley, who chaired the data and safety monitoring board for the Shingles Prevention Study ...

All children in the UK should be given a chickenpox vaccine at 12 and 18 months of age, combined with the MMR jab as one shot, the NHS is advised. It will now be up to the government to decide ...

Babies born from this month onwards will now be offered the chickenpox vaccine, which is being added to the HSE immunisation scheme. The vaccine will be given by GPs to babies at the age of 12 ...