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There’s been a rise of shingles cases among adults aged 25–49. Why aren’t they eligible for a free vaccine?
Shingles can cause severe and long-lasting complications, yet vaccination rates in Canada remain low despite the availability of a highly effective vaccine.
Having an under five in your household increases your risk as an adult of having diarrhoea and vomiting.
The MMRV jab protects against chickenpox and its lifelong complications. Here’s what the new vaccination schedule means for your family.
Chickenpox parties are a thing of the past but the virus is still circulating. Most illness is mild but some people can become seriously ill.
If you’ve had chickenpox, the virus never fully leaves your body. Years later, it can reappear as shingles. Here’s what causes it — and what doesn’t.
Most states require childhood vaccinations for measles, mumps, tetanus, rubella, chickenpox and whooping cough.
In England, there are around 4,500 hospital admissions a year due to chickenpox.
A prominent Nature study and related research raise the possibility that vaccines may have a broader role in experimental therapeutics outside the realm of infectious diseases.
Mpox is now readily spreading from person to person. It is mutating faster and the strains are more virulent.
An increase in serious illnesses caused by group A Streptococcus has recently made Strep A a growing concern in Canada and elsewhere. Here’s why and how it’s spreading, and what symptoms to look for.
In one country where the chickenpox vaccine is already routine, cases have fallen by 97% since it was first introduced.
Middle age means staying a step ahead on both the medical and financial fronts.
People with an active case of shingles have up to an 80% higher risk of stroke than those without. The increased risk is highest for patients under 40.
The new name for monkeypox must be aligned with best practices in naming of infectious diseases to avoid the uninformed negative narrative that associates diseases with regions.
Some of the omicron variant’s unique properties – such as its ability to spread rapidly while causing milder COVID-19 infections – could usher in a new phase of the pandemic.
Chickenpox has largely disappeared from the public’s memory thanks to a highly effective vaccine. But the virus’s clever life cycle allows it to reappear in later adulthood in the form of shingles.
The Trump administration has banned NIH researchers from using fetal tissue. The tissue is an essential tool for scientists investigating diseases ranging from Alzheimer’s to Zika virus infections.
Here’s a list of the most common rashes and what you need to look for.
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Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Associate professor, Monash University
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Fellow, Australian National University
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Senior Research Officer, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, University of Sydney
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Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina
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Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Public Health, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Western University
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Professor Emerita of Biology, Indiana University
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Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina
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Professor, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow
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Professor, Molecular Immunology, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)