New research published in the International Journal of Toxicology (IJT) by Gary S. Goldman, Ph.D., reveals high rates of shingles (herpes zoster) in Americans since the government's 1995 recommendation that all children receive chicken pox vaccine. Goldman's research supports that shingles, which results in three times as many deaths and five times the number of hospitalizations as chicken pox, is suppressed naturally by occasional contact with chicken pox.

Chickenpox is a viral disease caused by the
virus Varicella
Herpes Zoster. It is a common
childhood disease similar measles and mumps and although it cannot be cured,
it will pass on its own usually without complications. It
is estimated that 90% of the worlds population
experience chickenpox during childhood.

Usually chickenpox is not treated at all. It is one of those childhood
diseases like mumps and measles and it will go on its own.

Chickenpox is caused by the virus Herpes Zoster. It
is very easy to catch as it spreads through the humidity in the air
in the incubation period of chickenpox which lasts from 7 to 23 days
and has no symptoms.