This factsheet explains chickenpox (varicella) to support nurses in identifying and managing the common childhood disease.

Chickenpox is known for its telltale itchy, spotty rash that blisters and scabs over. But before these spots appear, the virus can also cause a high temperature, aches and pains, and loss of appetite.

The chickenpox vaccine protects against the highly contagious varicella-zoster virus, which results in a rash and potentially ...

“The virus can be spread from person to person by direct contact, inhalation of aerosols from vesicular fluid of skin lesions of acute varicella or zoster (the fluid from the rash blisters); and ...

The Classical Academy says its central campus is in outbreak status due to at least three students with chickenpox.

After we recover from chickenpox, the virus remains dormant in nerve tissues and can reactivate later in life, often due to age-related or stress-related weakening of the immune system.” While ...

Cases of the common childhood infection can soar between March and May and there's one symptom many would not recognise ...

Symptoms usually begin 10 to 14 days after exposure and include a high fever, cough, runny nose and full body rash. Severe cases ... everyone this is no chicken pox,” Dearth said.

After recovering from chickenpox, the virus remains dormant in the body and can cause shingles later in life. Shingles is a painful, itchy rash that can cause long-term nerve pain or vision loss ...