Shingles vision symptoms caused by HZO might be rare—they show up in only 8 percent of shingles cases—but they are serious.

The varicella zoster virus (VZV), an infectious virus from the herpes virus family, is primarily known to cause varicella in ...

A 7-year-old boy presented with a chief complaint of a reaction associated with immunizations he had received 2 days previously. Doses of monovalent varicella vaccine and hepatitis A vaccine ...

An exanthem is any eruptive skin rash that may be associated with fever or other systemic symptoms. Causes include infectious pathogens, medication reactions and, occasionally, a combination of both.

More cases from the Penn State outbreak may be found, as the incubation period of chickenpox is more than two weeks. The CDC ...

Varicella, known as chickenpox, is caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV), with an estimated 84 million cases annually. It primarily affects children, for most of whom it is a self-limiting ...