The Link Between Chickenpox and Shingles
If you've ever had chickenpox, you're at risk of developing shingles later in life. Learn how chickenpox and shingles are related. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - March 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

West Virginia Lawmakers OK Bill Drawing Back One of the Strictest Child Vaccination Laws
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s GOP-controlled state Legislature voted Saturday to allow some students who don’t attend traditional public schools to be exempt from state vaccination requirements that have long been held up as among the most strict in the country. The bill was approved despite the objections of Republican Senate Health and Human Resources Chair Mike Maroney, a trained doctor, who called the bill “an embarrassment” and said he believed lawmakers were harming the state. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “I took an oath to do no harm. There’s zer...
Source: TIME: Health - March 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: LEAH WILLINGHAM / AP Tags: Uncategorized News Desk wire Source Type: news

Nigeria: Govt Issues Alert Against Dehydration, Measles
[Premium Times] NIMET said as a result of the high temperature, people will experience dehydration which could cause fainting; Chickenpox disease, Measles, and heat rash. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 14, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Climate Environment Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news

A Man Has Died From Alaskapox. Here ’s What We Know About the Virus
Alaska’s health department reports that the first person in the state has died from a recently discovered virus called Alaskapox. The elderly man—who was immunocompromised due to cancer treatments—first noticed an unusual lesion in his right armpit last September, according to Alaska health officials who spoke to TIME about the case. He was prescribed antibiotics at his local emergency room on the Kenai Peninsula, but after multiple visits and a worsening, painful infection, he was transferred to a hospital in Anchorage. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The patient tested positive for ...
Source: TIME: Health - February 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

The New Vaccines to Get in 2024
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending new vaccines for adults and kids in 2024, according to its latest annual guidelines finalized Jan. 11. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a collection of medical and public-health experts who regularly review evidence and research about vaccines, compiled the new guidelines. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Like it does every year, ACIP recommends that American adults receive an annual flu shot and several standard vaccinations, such as those for chickenpox (if they haven’t had it already) and ...
Source: TIME: Health - January 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Getting Sick All the Time? Don ’ t (Necessarily) Blame COVID-19
Respiratory disease season is in full swing, with influenza, RSV, and COVID-19 case counts rising in various parts of the U.S. Hospitals in some states are also reporting upticks in pediatric pneumonia diagnoses, which experts say seems to be unrelated to the recent spike of pneumonias reported in China. On the heels of last year’s severe flu and RSV reason, all this contagion has some people wondering if SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may be to blame. Some studies suggest the virus leaves its mark on the immune system even after an acute illness passes, raising an important question: does having COVI...
Source: TIME: Health - December 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

Dr Zoe warns against using calamine lotion as treatment for chickenpox
Using calamine lotion on a chickenpox rash could cause further irritation to skin, said Dr Zoe. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

JCVI recommends chickenpox vaccine for all children
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended that a universal chickenpox vaccination programme is included in the routine childhood schedule. The programme would use the combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (MMRV) vaccine and would include two doses at 12 and 18 months of age. This recommendation is based on evidence from... Read moreThe post JCVI recommends chickenpox vaccine for all children appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - November 15, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Megan Ford Tags: Clinical Latest news Paediatrics Vaccinations Vaccinations and infections Source Type: news

Toddlers should have chickenpox jab, say experts
The chickenpox vaccine should be available on the NHS for young children, scientific advisers have recommended. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Chickenpox vaccine should be given to children on NHS, experts say
Including jab as part of routine immunisations would have ‘really positive impact on health of young children’, says JCVIExplainer: Why is the UK proposing chickenpox vaccines and do we really need them?A vaccine to protect against chickenpox should become a routine childhood jab in the UK, government advisers have said, adding that the move would not only reduce the number of children who become sick from the virus, but also cut the number of serious cases that can become fatal.At present, the jab, known as the varicella vaccination after the varicella zoster virus that causes the disease, is only available on the NHS...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 14, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science corespondent Tags: Chickenpox Society NHS UK news Health Source Type: news

Is a vaccine as effective as getting chickenpox? Does it have any risks? And could NHS scheme to jab babies backfire? Your questions answered
Experts said a chickenpox vaccine rollout in the UK would make the contagious infection 'a problem of the past'. Here, MailOnline sets out all you need to know. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Babies as young as 12 MONTHS should be vaccinated against chickenpox on the NHS, health bosses rule in major new guidance that could see 7million children under-11 also jabbed
Data suggests the jab, which would be offered in the UK in two doses at 12 and 18 months, would slash chickenpox transmission and prevent most severe cases in children. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

UK experts recommend chickenpox shot for kids for the first time, decades after other countries
An expert scientific committee advising the British government recommended for the first time Tuesday that children should be immunized with the chickenpox vaccine — decades after the shots were made widely available in other countries, including the U... (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - November 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

Give toddlers chickenpox jab, advisers tell NHS
All UK children should be protected against the virus at 12 and 18 months of age, advisers tell NHS. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - November 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Chickenpox jab should be added to UK child vaccine programme, says JCVI
GPs could vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children against chickenpox after expert government advisers backed adding the jab to the UK's child vaccination programme. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - November 14, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Clinical News Source Type: news