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
Chickenpox vaccine to be added to childhood vaccine programme, say health experts
Health experts have recommended a vaccine against varicella, commonly known as chickenpox, should be added to the UK's routine childhood immunisation programme. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Risk of disease spread soars in Gaza as health facilities, water and sanitation systems disrupted
8 November 2023 – As deaths and injuries in Gaza continue to rise due to intensified hostilities, intense overcrowding and disrupted health, water, and sanitation systems pose an added danger: the rapid spread of infectious diseases. Some worrying trends are already emerging.
Lack of fuel has led to the shutting down of desalination plants, significantly increasing the risk of bacterial infections like diarrhea spreading as people consume contaminated water. Lack of fuel has also disrupted all solid waste collection, creating an environment conducive to the rapid and widespread proliferation of insects, rodents th...
Source: WHO EMRO News - November 8, 2023 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
Why Do Infants Seem to Avoid Severe COVID-19?
With COVID-19 rates rising around the country, and an updated vaccine now available, researchers are still trying to understand how immunity to COVID-19 works, and the best ways to build and sustain it.
One of the possibly richest areas of research might be infections among the very young, who tend to be spared from more serious COVID-19 disease. Hospitalization rates for infants four years old or under dropped to under 1 per 100,000 earlier this year, and have recently inched up slightly to 2 per 100,000 in the middle of September, compared to rates for people over 65 years old, which hit a low of 6 per 100,000 earlier...
Source: TIME: Health - October 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
How COVID-19 Changed Life for People Terrified of Needles
From the moment COVID-19 reached pandemic designation, Joe McDougall had nightmares. Not, like others, about the potential path of the virus, but about the seemingly inevitable moment at which he’d be asked—or held down and forced—to receive a vaccine. McDougall, now 39, is terrified of needles and a global pandemic meant that for the first time since adolescence, he might not be able to avoid them.
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Of all of the challenges facing mass COVID-19 vaccination, fear of needles is one of the least acknowledged by public-health campaigns. Even what we know ...
Source: TIME: Health - October 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
New strain of highly contagious chickenpox virus found for the first time in India
Surveillance for monkeypox in India has revealed a new variant of varicella-zoster virus. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - September 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
I was told the small bump on my face was a chickenpox scar. Years later my face erupted in hundreds of TUMORS
A 52-year-old Idaho woman with 200 benign tumors, mainly on her face, has faced ridicule for unknowingly passing her rare genetic condition, affecting one in 2,500 people, to her daughters. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Four-year-old boy with rare cancer desperately needs £250k for American drug trial
Calum Rae's family hopes the experimental treatment will give them more time with their son, who was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer after a bout of chickenpox. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - May 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Boy, 4, diagnosed with 'high risk' cancer after complaining about a 'sore body'
Calum Ray's first cancer symptoms appeared just shortly after he battled chickenpox. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - May 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
GSK rolls out its Shingles vaccine in India
The adult vaccine recommended for people aged 50 years and above, provides protection against shingles - a disease associated with debilitating pain and rashes caused by the reactivation of the varicella zoster virus (VZV). VZV is the same virus that causes chickenpox. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - April 24, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
'Time has come' for the UK to routinely vaccinate babies against chickenpox, scientists say
Danish academics found vaccinating kids against chickenpox 'significantly' slashes cases and deaths in both children. Such a programme would also benefit adults, they claim. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What is the painful condition called shingles?
What is shingles, the painful skin condition caused by same virus as chickenpox and the rare condition that partially paralyzed Justin Bieber's face? (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - March 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
DHS Announces Immunization Updates for Children in Child Care Centers and Schools
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has announced updates to the immunizations needed for children in child care centers and schools. The changes include updated requirements related to meningitis and whooping cough immunizations, and that past chickenpox infection must be documented by a qualified medical professional. There is no change to existing exemption options for medical, religious, or philosophical reasons. Seasonal flu vaccination or COVID-19 vaccination are not required...(see release)JenniferC.MillerFebruary 1, 2023 (Source: Wisconsin DHFS Press Releases)
Source: Wisconsin DHFS Press Releases - February 1, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: JenniferC.Miller Source Type: news
