Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus. It leads to itchy rashes with fluid-filled ...

School transmission accounted for just 1.2% of cases ... but hospitalizations and deaths from chickenpox are rare in the ...

Chickenpox is a highly contagious viral infection that causes a skin rash, starting with red bumps and progressing to blisters and scabs. It may also cause symptoms such as fever, headache, and ...

Although they are caused by different types of viruses, the symptoms of monkeypox are similar to those of chickenpox — and it can be tricky to tell between the two without a test. In Greece ...

When the world was running scared about the monkey-pox virus in 2022, I asked the University of Houston college students I was teaching if they had heard of chickenpox. They stared at me blankly.