Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease, caused by a virus which belongs to the herpes family. This virus is known as varicella-zoster virus and also as […]
Smallpox is one of the most devastating diseases in the history of mankind. Believed to originate more than three millennia ago in India or Egypt, epidemics […]
The chicken pox vaccine, which was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2005, is growing in popularity and is becoming more widely used […]
Chicken pox is very common in children, being actually a children’ s disease. It is very contagious and it is actually nothing but a viral infection. […]
Shingles, chicken pox, and herpes… are they related? More than you may think. Shingles, also called herpes zoster, is a viral skin infection caused by varicella […]