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 ...
Young children will be offered a free chicken pox jab on the NHS as part of their routine childhood vaccinations for the ...
The UK has added chickenpox to the routine childhood vaccination schedule for the first time, using a combined MMRV jab that ...
DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 56-year-old male who never had the chicken pox. When the first of my children was born, I had blood tests done to see if I’d ever been exposed. I had not, so I received the ...
An increase in chickenpox cases has been reported among children in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus, spreading easily in ...
The NHS is introducing a combined MMRV vaccine to protect children against measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox, with ...