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

Examples include eczema, chickenpox, psoriasis, and shingles. It can be hard to identify a skin rash since many cause similar symptoms. A skin rash is generally defined as an area of irritated ...

Many Brits could be unknowingly teetering on the brink of serious health issues, as a leading expert warns that if left ...

Medically reviewed by Jonathan B. Jassey, DO Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is the virus that causes chickenpox and shingles.

Many Brits might unknowingly be walking a knife’s edge with their health, as an expert warned if left untreated, the disease ...

A tell-tale sign of shingles is a rash that begins as small, red patches before developing into fluid-filled blisters. Niamh explained: "This rash tends to appear on one side of the body or face ...

Shingles, also called zoster, looks like blisters on the skin and can be excruciating It's the chickenpox virus that reactivates causing a rash and nerve pain. Shingles of the eye can cause ...

Amid warnings of a 'tripledemic' of cold, flu and Covid this winter, millions could bypass the GP queue and directly access ...

There's a potential new treatment for people who develop shingles that spread to the eye. Doctors say about 8% of shingles ...

The virus spreads down a nerve pathway to cause a painful blistering rash in the skin area that the nerve wires. In about 8 percent of the more than 1 million new shingles cases in the United States ...

Zero shingles cases after 18.8 months follow-up in 619 patients receiving any dose of amezosvatein, a development-stage adjuvanted subunit ...