Chickenpox

Treating Chickenpox
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
In otherwise healthy children and adults, the disease should be allowed to run its course. But that doesn't mean the symptoms should be ignored. Calamine lotion applied to the lesions may offer some relief from the infamous itch of the chickenpox rash.

Chickenpox Vaccine Health Benefits and Complications
by Health Canada
There are new recommendations about who should get the chickenpox vaccine. Talk to your doctor or health care provider about the benefits of this vaccine for members of your family who are at least 12 months old, and have never had chickenpox.

Vaccine for Chickenpox : Part 2
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Varivax's development began with a sample of varicella (chickenpox) virus isolated from the blood of a 3-year-old Japanese boy in 1972. Japanese researcher Michiaki Takahashi, M.D., attenuated (weakened) the virus by growing it in different human

Vaccine for Chickenpox
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The days when nearly everyone spent a week of their childhood with the itchy, miserable rash of chickenpox may be on the wane. Last March 17, the Food and Drug Administration licensed a new vaccine, Varivax (varicella virus vaccine live).