In her latest column, Dr Jane Wilcock highlights that from January, a free chicken pox vaccine will be added to the UK ...

Chickenpox is highly contagious and causes fever, fatigue, and a rash that can develop into hundreds of itchy blisters.

In her latest column, Dr Jane Wilcock highlights that from January, a free chicken pox vaccine will be added to the UK childhood immunisation schedule.

Cases have surged as children returned to school after the festive holidays 🤒 ...

Children across the county will be offered a routine chickenpox vaccination as part of a combined MMRV vaccine.

Young children will be offered a free chicken pox jab on the NHS as part of their routine childhood vaccinations for the first time. It will be offered alongside the MMR jab, which protects against ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It will be offered alongside the MMR jab, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella and become the MMRV jab. Chickenpox, ...

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All young children in the UK can now be offered protection against chickenpox for the first time on the NHS. The vaccine will be combined with the existing MMR jab, given at 12 and 18 months of age, ...