In March 2025, the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP) advised that clade I mpox no longer meets the criteria for a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) and recommended derogation.

VZV is one of eight herpesviruses known to infect humans, and is associated with vesicular lesions, infection of neuronal tissue and latent infection of dorsal root ganglia.

Description: Initial exposure to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) in a non-immunized person causes an acute illness called varicella (chickenpox), transmitted mainly via the respiratory tract or ...

Both monkeypox and chickenpox are viral illnesses, but they have quite different symptoms, aetiology, transmission, and ...

Symptom onset occurred within 5 days of vaccination in 35% of cases. Of the 49 cases that had lesion descriptions, 18% had 11-50 lesions, 22% were diffuse, and 33% were present on more than 1 body ...

Trigeminal neuralgia due to varicella zoster virus reactivation. Brain MRI demonstrated a longitudinal lesion with hyperintense signal on T2-weighted imaging in the left spinal nucleus of the ...

Symptom onset occurred within 5 days of vaccination in 35% of cases. Of the 49 cases that had lesion descriptions, 18% had 11-50 lesions, 22% were diffuse, and 33% were present on more than 1 body ...

Of the 49 cases that had lesion descriptions, 18% had 11-50 lesions, 22% were diffuse, and 33% were present on more than 1 body area. The rationale for vaccine receipt was included in 31% of cases.

Shingles typically causes blisters and rashes on the skin. In rare cases, you may experience other symptoms without a rash. This is referred to as “internal shingles” or zoster sine herpete (ZSH).

Herpes simplex virus infection lesions can have indistinguishable morphology from VZV infections: 1- to 2-mm clustered vesicles on a brightly erythematous base.