A small outbreak of chicken pox was traced back to a single school bus in Michigan, and highlights the importance giving kids the chicken pox vaccine, according to a new report. Health officials ...

The Kentucky teenager who caught chickenpox after refusing to be vaccinated for religious reasons may not realize there can be lifelong consequences from being infected with a herpes virus.

Scientists could finally see that the diseases were in fact caused by the same virus, the now awkwardly named “varicella zoster virus.” The virus, it turns out, never quite leaves the human body.