Infants born more than five days after the onset of maternal varicella, although they may have lesions at birth or soon after, are not at high risk. They are protected by the transplacental ...

Severe chickenpox is more likely to affect adults, infants, teenagers, pregnant women, and people with a weakened immune system (due to a health condition or medical treatment). But even in ...

He may be contagious if he is incubating chickenpox and he needs to avoid close contact with newborn babies, pregnant mothers who have not had chickenpox themselves and anyone with low immunity ...

We administered live attenuated varicella vaccine to 187 healthy adults seronegative to varicella-zoster virus (VZV); 176 have been followed at least 2 mos. 121/176 (69%) received 2 doses about 3 ...

For example, in 1969, mass immunization for rubella reduced this illness from one that caused 12.5 million cases of rubella in the pandemic of 1962 to 1964 with 20,000 infants developing ...