DEAR DR. ROACH: A few months ago, you wrote about the benefits of the shingles vaccine. At 63, I’m one of the 1% who has never had, nor been exposed to, chickenpox. I was tested in 2022 for ...

If you hear that chicken pox is going around your child’s school, you may not worry because everyone gets chicken pox, right? You’ve probably even heard that some people purposely expose their ...

The varicella-zoster virus causes both chickenpox and shingles infections. Initially, the virus causes a chickenpox infection. If it reactivates later, shingles can develop. The chickenpox vaccine ...

CHICKENPOX IS A HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS DISEASE THAT MANY PEOPLE CAN REMEMBER GETTIN ITCHING AND SPOTS WHEN IT WAS GONE UP UNTIL THE 90S THERE WAS NOTHING TO STOP PEOPLE FROM GETTING CHICKEN POX. BUT IN ...

Before the chicken pox (varicella) vaccine was introduced in 1995, kids could count on experiencing the illness as a kind of childhood milestone — the virus is super-contagious and spreads around ...

While many 90s trends are making a comeback there is one that doctors want to stay in the past: Chickenpox parties. Kentucky governor Matt Bevin recently revealed that when a neighbor developed ...