Dear Dr. Roach: A few months ago, you wrote about the benefits of the shingles vaccine. At 63, I’m one of the 1% who has never had, nor been exposed to, chicken pox. I was tested in 2022 for varicella ...

A Nov. 15 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) from the liberal group Occupy Democrats includes side-by-side images of a child infected with smallpox and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect ...

A Vancouver father is calling on parents to vaccinate their children for chickenpox after his son nearly died from the disease while his immune system was compromised during chemotherapy. Jason Lawson ...

CHEO is currently dealing with an outbreak of another virus, unrelated to COVID-19. Three children have contracted chickenpox. The outbreak began after one child contracted the virus in the community ...

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern. There have been over 15,600 cases and over 530 deaths reported in the Democratic Republic ...

Many of us experienced chickenpox as kids. The illness, which typically causes fever, headache, appetite loss, and an itchy, bumpy, red rash, is caused by Varicella zoster virus (VZV). Even though we ...