Seasonal change brings with itself a host of diseases. One such disease is chickenpox. It can occur at any time of the year, but are more common during late winter and early spring. Recently, Pune ...

"(Measles) is a very highly infectious disease. It spreads like wildfire, so we need to do everything possible to prevent that from happening." ...

Chickenpox vaccines have virtually wiped out severe complications and deaths in American children from the highly contagious virus, a new report finds. Chickenpox —which is caused by the ...

Thanks to the vaccination program that began in 1995, chickenpox is now relatively rare. Cases of the miserable, itchy condition have fallen more than 97 percent. But, while children have largely put ...

An expert scientific committee advising the British government recommended for the first time Tuesday that children should be immunized with the chickenpox vaccine—decades after the shots were made ...

WASHINGTON, DC — In the 25 years since the United States first launched its universal vaccinations program to protect children against chickenpox (varicella), the program has seen dramatic results, a ...

Alerts have been issued about the rising number of chickenpox cases in Northern New South Wales this year. Meanwhile, chickenpox continues to spread across Australia with 2,010 notified cases so far ...