A vaccination to prevent horribly painful shingles may offer an extra benefit: New research suggests it might lower the risk ...

A SHINGLES jab could reduce your dementia risk by 20 per cent, research suggests. Vaccines are offered free on the NHS to ...

Mpox has the potential to become a significant global health threat if taken too lightly, according to scientists at the ...

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

An unusual public health policy in Wales may have produced the strongest evidence yet that a vaccine can reduce the risk of ...

Catching a gnarly cold or getting a hellish sunburn can throw a wrench into any vacation, but shingles can be a whole other level of pain to deal with. It’s bad enough to get it when you’re in the ...

If they then touch you, you may catch the virus or you could end up passing it on to someone in your household. Chickenpox is known for its telltale itchy, spotty rash that blisters and scabs over.

An unusual public health policy in Wales may have produced the strongest evidence yet that a vaccine can reduce the risk of ...

Mpox has the potential to become a significant global health threat if taken too lightly, according to scientists at the University of Surrey.

because the shingles blisters contain the same virus. A diagnosis of chickenpox can usually be made from the characteristic chickenpox rash (see box on clinical features/symptoms), although the rash ...

Smallpox is caused by variola virus. It is contagious and will spread from person to person. A fever gives way to a rash, that turns into numerous poxes, skin eruptions that fill with fluid.