GPs will not be expected to do any additional testing now chickenpox is a notifiable disease, UK public health officials have ...

Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. In this disease, red spots or rashes emerge all over the body. This ...

Many people think chickenpox isn’t that serious, but the disease can actually be life-threatening. Chickenpox caused more than 10,000 hospitalizations and up to 150 deaths every year before the ...

“It usually takes one to three weeks for symptoms to appear after someone is exposed to the virus. These include fever and tiredness, a red, itchy skin rash that turns into small blisters, headaches ...

Common childhood infections once considered mere inconveniences may provide unexpected long-term benefits. Emerging research ...

Shingles is a painful rash which occurs in someone who has previously had chickenpox. Ever since your mother had chickenpox the Varicella Zoster virus which caused it has laid silently in the ...

Health officials in South Sudan’s Lakes State have reported cases of chickenpox and suspected measles at Rumbek Central ...

A rash accompanied by swollen lymph nodes usually stems from a viral infection, such as measles, chickenpox, or mononucleosis. A rash is an inflammatory response that causes changes to your skin ...

This color-enhanced Transmission Electron Micrograph (TEM) shows the varicella zoster virus (VZV), a virus in the Herpesviridae family that causes chickenpox in children and shingles (herpes ...

Once someone has had chickenpox, the virus stays in their body, hidden in the nerve cells, but it does not usually cause further symptoms. Sometimes, however, the virus becomes reactivated ...

The shingles vaccine may have a protective effect against dementia, write doctors Christopher Worsham and Anupam Jena.

The same virus that causes chickenpox, the varicella-zoster virus, causes shingles. Disseminated shingles occurs when the rash covers a wider area of the body than localized shingles, in which a ...