Young children will be offered a free chicken pox jab on the NHS as part of their routine childhood vaccinations for the first time. It will be offered alongside the MMR jab, which protects against ...

Public health officials in Kentucky say Varicella, commonly known as chicken pox, is a highly contagious viral illness, still here and still preventable, known for its ...

Young children will now be offered protection against chickenpox as part of their routine vaccinations via the NHS. It will be music to many parents’ ears, as chickenpox can trigger unpleasant ...

In a news release from the Hawaiʻi Department of Health, officials confirmed that four Kīlauea Elementary students and one ...

Hawaii health officials investigate chickenpox outbreak at Kauai school – Hawaii News, Health and Fitness | The Garden Island ...

The Hawai‘i Department of Health is investigating an outbreak of chickenpox (varicella) at Kīlauea Elementary School on the ...

Children in the UK will be offered a chickenpox vaccine for the first time, as the NHS rolls them out nationwide. Youngsters across the UK will now be offered the vaccine along with the MMR jab, which ...

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, ...

As a new NHS chickenpox jab is added to the UK childhood schedule from 2026, paediatric specialists are warning parents not to dismiss it as trivial. A leading paediatric doctor has issued an urgent ...