chickenpox virus

The chickenpox virus can spread easily from one person to another.

Adolescents and adults who are not already immune to the chickenpox virus need this shot.

The third is for shingles, a disease of adults caused by the chickenpox virus.

Adults who are not already immune to the chickenpox virus need two doses, given at least 4 weeks apart.

The chickenpox virus is part of the herpes family.

He showed that shingles was caused by reactivation of the chickenpox virus.

Treatment with antiviral medicines may reduce the length of time you can pass the chickenpox virus to other people.

Shingles, also called herpes zoster, is caused by the chickenpox virus.

In 2006, a vaccine was introduced against shingles, a disease caused by the chickenpox virus, which usually affects the elderly.

Shingles itself comes from reactivation of a chickenpox virus, varicella zoster.

Because the chickenpox virus can pass from...

Following the initial chickenpox infection, usually during childhood, the chickenpox virus remains inactive in the body.

But it does not reduce itching, nor does it stop the spread of the chickenpox virus from one person to another.

Shingles is a painful nerve condition linked to the chickenpox virus, varicella zoster.

A person who gets chickenpox gets over the illness, but the chickenpox virus stays in the body.

The chickenpox virus, for instance, can hibernate in nerve cells, emerging years later in the form of shingles.

Factors that may weaken the immune system, reactivate the chickenpox virus, and cause shingles include:

But the chickenpox virus remains dormant in nerve cells and often causes shingles in infected individuals decades later.

The skin blisters that form in shingles are full of the chickenpox virus, which means a person with shingles is infectious.

Shingles usually occurs in older adults and the immunocompromised and is a reactivation of the chickenpox virus.

However, it is thought that contact with a shingles patient may trigger a person's own dormant chickenpox virus to become shingles.

Varicella (chickenpox): two-dose series given to adults with no evidence of immunity to the chickenpox virus.

Varicella (chickenpox) - This protects against the chickenpox virus, which tends to cause much worse illness in adults than children.

The shingles vaccine, Zostavax, contains a weakened chickenpox virus (varicella-zoster virus).

The condition is a result of nerve damage from the reactivated chickenpox virus - called herpes zoster - that causes shingles.