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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 ...

Young children in the UK are being offered protection against chickenpox on the NHS for the first time. It is being added to the list of standard childhood vaccinations from the start of January, and ...

Chickenpox kills up to 20 people a year and can result in dangerous complications like lung infections, seizures and sepsis IT’S a common childhood illness that most people think they can easily spot… ...

Details of when children in Wales will be able to get the new chickenpox vaccine have been announced. All children aged 12 to 18 months across the UK will be offered a vaccine for chickenpox - also ...

A vaccination programme to protect young children against chickenpox is being rolled out in Wales from today. All children aged 12 to 18 months across the UK will be offered a vaccine for chickenpox - ...

IT’S a common childhood illness that most people think they can easily spot… thanks to that tell-tale rash. But chickenpox isn’t just about the maddeningly itch. There are actually several other ...

A chickenpox vaccine is being rolled out on the NHS for the first time. It will be offered to youngsters alongside the MMR jab, which protects against measles, mumps, and rubella. It's a combo that's ...

Chickenpox will now be added to the NHS childhood routine vaccination programme in what has been described as a “historic milestone”. Health chiefs say the move will boost population health, cut ...

GPs will be contacting families to offer the MMRV vaccine as part of the routine childhood vaccination programme (Alamy/PA) A vaccine which protects against chickenpox is to be rolled out across the ...

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, ...