'Chickenpox Can Be Serious': Parents Urged to Protect Their Children as Rollout of Chickenpox Vaccine Begins

Parents urged to protect their children as rollout of chickenpox vaccine begins

Chickenpox can have serious or even fatal complications 🏥

'Chickenpox can be serious': Parents urged to protect their children as rollout of chickenpox vaccine begins

Chickenpox can have serious or even fatal complications 🏥

Hundreds of thousands of young children now to be protected against chickenpox

Hundreds of thousands of families with young children will be offered protection against chickenpox as part of their routine childhood vaccinations. The NHS’s vaccination programme is being expanded to include chickenpox (also known as varicella) for the first time to help shield young children from getting seriously ill. From now on, GP practices will start to offer children a combined MMRV vaccine at 12 months and 18 months of age to add chick…

NHS Adds Chickenpox Vaccine to Routine Childhood Immunisations

The NHS has introduced routine chickenpox vaccination using the combined MMRV jab, protecting young children from varicella across the UK.