“Adding the varicella vaccine to the childhood immunisation ... during the pandemic due to social restrictions, meaning there is currently a larger pool of children than usual without immunity.

The chickenpox vaccine could be introduced on the NHS for young children in Northern Ireland and across the rest of the UK. It comes after scientists advising the UK government's health ...

However, we disagree with the authors conclusions that there is evidence for reactivation of the vaccine virus or that the vaccine virus causes clinical chickenpox in healthy vaccinees.

The incidence of chickenpox has declined with widespread use of live-attenuated varicella vaccine in infants (Journal Watch Feb 22 2002). To assess the vaccine's effectiveness, researchers ...

but there was no spread. Clinical infection was likely to occur in those seronegative at exposure (7/8, 88%) but the illness was still very mild. Varicella vaccine has the potential to control but ...

By Keith Roach, M.D. TITLE: 63-year-old debates getting shingles and chicken pox vaccines---DEAR DR. ROACH: A few months ago, yo ...

The Catholic Church has told its members it is morally justifiable to use these vaccines, though it wants alternative treatments developed without "using cell lines of illicit origin". Chickenpox ...

The chickenpox vaccine has seen thousands of US children avoid going to hospital in the last decade A North Carolina school with a large anti-vaccine community is at the heart of the state's ...

These two reports address the effects of varicella-zoster vaccination and varicella vaccination. Richard Whitley, who chaired the data and safety monitoring board for the Shingles Prevention Study ...