Rare but serious side effects include rash, itching, yellowing of the skin ... and treat seizures and to diminish a specific type of nerve pain called post-herpetic neuralgia that often follows a ...

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-zoster virus ...

Chicken pox (varicella) is the disease people get when they are exposed to the varicella-zoster virus for the first time.