Yes and no. You can’t catch shingles from another person. But shingles is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox. The virus, called varicella zoster, can be spread by person-to-person ...
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, chicken pox. I was tested in 2022 for varicella ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Even though babies under one year old are too young to get the chicken pox vaccine, far fewer of them got the itchy rash after the U.S. started routinely vaccinating older ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) announces there has been two outbreaks of varicella (commonly known as chicken pox) in the state since early ...
In a scenario that's ripe for terrible Twitter jokes but actually pretty frightening, Whoopi Goldberg announced this morning on The View that co-host Barbara Walters has the chicken pox, a disease ...
A string of chicken pox cases at one Massachusetts public school district has reignited the conversation on vaccines. Newton administrators will require every student to be vaccinated against ...
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