Chickenpox is highly contagious and causes fever, fatigue, and a rash that can develop into hundreds of itchy blisters.

FILE - A vial of a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine sits on a countertop at a pediatrics clinic in Greenbrae, Calif., on Feb. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File ...

A teenager who had to learn to walk again after contracting chickenpox aged two welcomes new free vaccinations.

In her latest column, Dr Jane Wilcock highlights that from January, a free chicken pox vaccine will be added to the UK ...

The shingles vaccine is intended to prevent shingles, a painful rash caused by the reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus, also known as herpes zoster, but a new study suggests that it could have ...

Monkeypox is not related to chickenpox. Both diseases include ‘pox’ in their names because they both cause pockmark skin lesions. But they are different diseases caused by unrelated viruses. Monkeypox ...