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 ...

All young children in the UK can now be offered protection against chickenpox for the first time on the NHS. The vaccine will be combined with the existing MMR jab, given at 12 and 18 months of age, ...

Chicken Pox is on the rise across the UK at the minute. Many people try to catch the contagious and itchy virus as a child, thinking that they can't contract it a second time. It is often thought to ...

In her latest column, Dr Jane Wilcock highlights that from January, a free chicken pox vaccine will be added to the UK ...

Chickenpox, otherwise known as varicella, is very common among children and causes an itchy rash and red spots or blisters all over the body. Children can be protected from chickenpox by getting the ...

Chickenpox is highly contagious and causes fever, fatigue, and a rash that can develop into hundreds of itchy blisters.

When governments mandate chickenpox vaccinations, a sharp drop in the number of Google searches for the common childhood disease suggests seasonal outbreaks are significantly reduced, according to new ...

The NHS has launched free chickenpox vaccinations for children across the UK today, marking the first time the jab has been added to the routine childhood immunisation schedule since 2015. GP ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. [Getty Images] All young children in the UK can now be offered protection against chickenpox for the first time on the NHS. The ...