Families across Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire can now get their children protected against chicken pox. The NHS added the jabs to the routine childhood vaccination programme from January 2026.

Bulgaria is set to make vaccination against chickenpox compulsory starting this July. The new ordinance on immunizations, published in today’s “State Gazette,” stipulates that the vaccine will be ...

Young children will now be offered protection against chickenpox as part of their routine vaccinations via the NHS. The MMR vaccine, which protects against measles ...

Four cases of chickenpox have been confirmed at Fairview Elementary School, according to Buncombe County Health and Human Services.

Ed Hutchinson receives grant funding from UKRI and the Wellcome Trust. He is the Chair of the Microbiology Society's Virus Division, a Board Member of the European Scientific Working Group on ...

A teenager who had to learn how to walk again after contracting chickenpox when she was two has welcomed new free vaccinations against the illness. Emily Walls, 18, developed septicaemia and was on a ...

A vaccine which protects against chickenpox is to be rolled out across the NHS for the first time from Friday. Children across the UK will be offered the vaccine along with the MMR jab which protects ...

A vaccine which protects against chickenpox is to be rolled out across the NHS for the first time. Youngsters across the UK will now be offered the vaccine along with the MMR jab, which protects ...

A top doctor has explained how your child can get a chickenpox jab if they've already had the MMR vaccine. As of yesterday, a new MMRV vaccine which provides protection against chickenpox (varicella) ...

14:28, Fri, Jan 2, 2026 Updated: 14:32, Fri, Jan 2, 2026 The NHS is introducing a vaccine against chickenpox for the first time, set to be rolled out from today. It will be added to the UK child ...

The NHS is rolling out out a vaccine for young children that protects against chickenpox. From today, youngsters across the UK will be offered the vaccine, which will be adminstered as part of the MMR ...

From Friday, January 2, thousands of families with young children will be offered a chickenpox vaccine as part of their routine childhood vaccinations available on the NHS. GPs will start contacting ...