Measles cases are surging in Texas. Dr. Kevin Davis explains symptoms, risks, and how vaccination can help protect families from the outbreak.

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

Other symptoms to note: Chicken pox rashes typically start toward the middle of the body and work outward toward the extremities. It can often cause pockmarked scars after the blisters heal.

Shingles is a painful rash which occurs in someone who has previously had chickenpox. Ever since your mother had chickenpox the Varicella Zoster virus which caused it has laid silently in the ...

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

There is no illness or fever associated with a heat rash. The best way to prevent chickenpox is vaccination. However, vaccination rates in the United States are falling, which is increasing the ...

“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.

The Ministry of Health and Human Services is actively monitoring reports of students exhibiting symptoms of vomiting and ...

Health officials are warning the public about a potential measles exposure on an Amtrak train to Washington, D.C. and at a ...

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