Medically reviewed by Jenny Sweigard, MDMedically reviewed by Jenny Sweigard, MD Mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) and chickenpox are two contagious viral diseases. They both have "pox" in their ...

Chickenpox is a common and highly infectious ... Younger children may skip this stage and start with a rash. Older children and adults tend to be more unwell with high fever, flu like symptoms ...

You do not have to wait until his skin looks completely clear. Children can also catch chickenpox if exposed to an adult with shingles as the same virus (the varicella zoster virus) causes both ...

Chickenpox can be serious, especially during pregnancy, in babies, adolescents, adults, and people with weakened immune systems (lowered ability to fight germs and sickness). Other typical ...

Chickenpox is one of those diseases almost everyone has had. Boston’s Children’s Hospital claims that 95% of American adults have had chickenpox and that four million people get it every year.

Columnist Teri Sforza writes that more than 500 California schools had 10% or more of their students on “conditional ...

"Chickenpox can be serious, especially during pregnancy, in babies, adolescents, adults, and people with weakened immune systems (lowered ability to fight germs and sickness)." ...

“One of the other families asked, and his mum said, ‘Oh, he has chicken pox, but we thought getting ... “I had it as an adult, and it was so bad (I cried every day for at least two weeks).” ...

At around four to six years they will be given booster doses of DTP and polio and second doses of MMR and chicken pox. This information ... Certain vaccines, such as adult TD, pediatric DT ...

and varicella (chickenpox). Many of those require a series of shots, timed for maximum effect, over weeks or months. These tallies of schools, where 10% or more of incoming kindergarteners and ...