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<p>The Department has made no assessment of the link between chicken pox and stroke
in children; research by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and University
College London in 2013, suggested that children who experience chickenpox are at a
four‐fold increased risk of ischaemic stroke in the subsequent six months, although
the study recognised that this was still only a small absolute stroke risk, due to
the low baseline incidence of paediatric stroke.</p><p> </p><p>Research by the School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, funded by the National Institute for Health Research
and the Stroke Association has identified that a patient’s risk of stroke significantly
increased following shingles.</p><p> </p>
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