Spots can also look very different depending on your skin tone. Some pink, red, or brown spots are more obvious on fair to ...

There are numerous potential causes for red spots to form on the skin, including sudden infections ... It’s caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV), which is the same virus that causes ...

What you might not realize, though, is that the virus that causes chickenpox—the varicella-zoster virus—still affects an estimated one million Americans each year by causing a different disease. It ...

The gatherings - which aim to expose children to the virus to 'get it over with' - put kids at risk of "serious complications", such as bacterial skin ... like chickenpox is very selfish "If ...

Chickenpox is a common and highly infectious ... Impetigo - this is a bacterial skin infection. It is itchy and very infectious. It begins with small blisters which turn into areas of pus covered ...

Once the virus is reactivated it does not cause typical chickenpox but instead causes a rash which tracks along the same area of skin supplied ... often red and sore. Because the nerve is inflamed ...

Shingles is a painful skin condition caused by the same virus as chickenpox. It most often affects ... Burning feeling and red rash Between 1 and 5 days after you start to feel the tingling ...

Shingles is not contagious, but it is caused by a virus that you can spread to another person which may cause them to develop chickenpox ... where your skin remains very painful even after ...

Jane Coulson, the owner of Play World in Gainsborough, told the BBC: "Someone deliberately bringing in something like chickenpox is very selfish ... like pneumonia, skin infections, or even ...