For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Chickenpox is a highly contagious viral infection causing an itchy, blister-like rash on ...

Chicken pox, caused by the varicella-zoster virus, is a common disease once thought to be a rite of passage for children. * Symptoms: Marked by a red, itchy rash and a fever. Once they arrive, ...

Patricia L. Foster is affiliated with the Union of Concerned Scientists and Concerned Scientists at Indiana University. In July 2021, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presentation obtained ...

Discussions on the MMRV vaccine focused largely on rare instances of feverish seizures associated with the first dose, given ...

There were enough unvaccinated students at about 5% of California’s public schools to fuel outbreaks of preventable childhood diseases last year, according to audit data from the state — and another 1 ...

Weeks after the global monkeypox outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 6,300 confirmed cases of monkeypox have been ...

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted Thursday to no longer recommend the MMRV vaccine — which protects against measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (chickenpox) — for children ...

Chickenpox is a highly contagious viral infection causing an itchy, blister-like rash on the skin. The infection, also known as varicella, affects mostly children and for ages was considered a rite of ...