Chickenpox is a contagious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV). It causes flu-like symptoms and an itchy rash.

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Skin rashes are extremely common and mostly manageable at home However some types of rashes may require professional ...

Read on for everything you need to know about 26 common skin rashes, according to doctors.

This sounds like prickly heat. It develops when the ducts from sweat ... This causes inflammation, and the raised, itchy red rash you describe. In more severe cases blisters also develop.

Daily temperature records around California continued to shatter this week as an unusual October heat wave broiled the state, with little relief expected the next few days for much of the state ...

The Miami Heat’s style of play has been built around defense since Pat Riley arrived in 1995. But even the Heat knows that its offense must be better than it has been the last two seasons.

Fewer young people are having sex, but the teens and young adults who are sexually active aren’t using condoms as regularly, if at all. And people ages 15 to 24 made up half of new chlamydia ...

With the monsoons almost waning, you wait for the winter chill to set in. But all you are greeted with is the ‘October heat’, described as a distinctive weather phenomenon that follows the rainy ...

In the first week a key symptom of Marburg virus can emerge of a non-itchy rash which appears raised on flat areas on the chest, back or stomach. There are not yet publicly available patient ...