The chicken pox vaccine became available in the U.S. in 1995 and, since then, cases of the virus in the U.S. have plummeted. But chicken pox still emerges from time to time. Montana public health ...

Alerts have been issued about the rising number of chickenpox cases in Northern New South Wales this year. Meanwhile, ...

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 ...

Discover foods to avoid when you have chickenpox, and find comforting, bland options to soothe symptoms. Prioritize hydration ...

The thought of chickenpox is enough to make any parent’s heart sink. Itchy, uncomfortable and miserable for your child, it’s also inconvenient as it means time off school or nursery for them, and ...

Wondering if chicken is good to eat during chickenpox Read ahead to get expert advice on safe chicken consumption nutrition ...

A leaked CDC document compared it to the highly contagious children's disease. Data does not support this claim. Nonetheless, the variant is one... The Delta Variant Isn't As Contagious As Chickenpox.

In an internal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report released on Friday in the United States, experts state that the COVID-19 Delta variant is more transmissible than the common cold ...

North Carolina is reeling with a surge of new coronavirus cases and the Delta variant, which first emerged in India, is largely to blame for skyrocketing numbers. On Friday, the state added 3,199 new ...

The number of people that one sick person will infect (on average) is called R0. Here are the maximum R0 values for a few viruses. Source: The Lancet (1918 flu, SARS), University of Michigan School of ...