You can catch chickenpox through direct contact with an infected person or by breathing in droplets from their sneezes or ...

For a long time, scientists assumed the virus that causes both chickenpox and shingles stayed dormant in the body after infection. But new evidence suggests the shingles virus may be linked to ...

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is warning the public of an exposure risk to varicella (also know as chickenpox) at ...

BHP alleges some of the 620,000 bids for compensation rest on spurious claims, as part of a courtroom push to cut back the ...

New research is providing fresh support for the decades-old idea that viral infections can play a role in at least some ...

Contrary to common belief, chickenpox does not affect only children. Adults who have neither been vaccinated nor previously ...

Posting to the subreddit r/relationships, the 27-year-old woman claimed that her mother-in-law crossed a line after exposing the young girl to chickenpox, and as a result, she didn't want her around ...

A simple, extended course of antiviral medication may significantly reduce the risk of eye damage and chronic pain associated with shingles.

It began with a burning pain in her right eye. At first, Elisabeth Cohen thought she’d gotten something in it. But the next ...

We usually think of chickenpox as something that only affects children. And while the virus is indeed most common amongst ...

Long-term, low-dose antiviral treatment reduces the risk for potentially vision-damaging bouts of inflammation and infection, as well as pain, which occur when shingles affects the eye, according to ...

An article published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity reports the findings of a study by researchers based in ...