The chicken pox vaccine became available in the U.S. in 1995 and, since then, cases of the virus in the U.S. have plummeted. But chicken pox still emerges from time to time. Montana public health ...

Charlotte Riggs of Atascocita does not remember having chicken pox as a child — but she remembers the pain she suffered a few years ago when she had a bout of shingles. "It was the worst pain I ever ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 56-year-old male who never had the chicken pox. When the first of my children was born, I had blood tests done to see if I’d ever been exposed. I had not, so I received the ...