New ‘life-saving’ chickenpox jab available to millions on the NHS TODAY – is your child eligible?

CHICKENPOX jabs will be offered to all children on the NHS for the first time from today. Vaccination against the varicella virus will be added to the measles, mumps and rubella injection in a four-in-one jab called MMRV. It has been used for years in the US, Canada and Germany. British toddlers will now be...