Clark County Public Health officials are warning residents about a rise in whooping cough cases and chickenpox outbreaks ...

Three schools have been impacted by chickenpox outbreaks. The majority of whooping cough and chickenpox cases are among ...

Officials say that just in the first two months of the school year they reported that there were 168 whooping cough cases.

RFK Jr., a longtime anti-vaccine activist, to play a role in Trump administration and potentially influence how the FDA and ...

P resident-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris means U.S. health policy may soon be shaped, at least in part, by one of the country’s most notorious vaccine skeptics: Robert ...

By Keith Roach, M.D. TITLE: 63-year-old debates getting shingles and chicken pox vaccines---DEAR DR. ROACH: A few months ago, yo ...

Varicella-zoster virus causes chickenpox and is a member of the herpes virus group. It is extremely contagious and causes a ...

The vaccine protects against a condition called herpes zoster, more commonly known as shingles. The infection causes a ...

or never had the chicken pox vaccine, before. This is why it is important to cover the rash when you have shingles, and try to avoid certain groups of people who may be more vulnerable to infection ...

The National Orientation Agency, NOA, in Akwa Ibom State has said the government traced six Mpox cases to one household in the state. This made the government to begin a sensitisation exercise to ...

Chickenpox. Whooping cough. Measles. You may have heard about outbreaks of these illnesses and thought, “Didn’t we end those with vaccinations?” But the only communicable disease that we have ...

I almost forgot about the shingles vaccine. The older Merck one was about 60% effective, while the new two-shot series from GSK is 95% effective. Anyone who has had varicella, commonly known as ...