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Cases of chickenpox reduced after vaccine introduced

Infection Control Weekly Monitor, September 5, 2008

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In other  vaccine news, the CDC reports that cases of chickenpox have dropped in communities across the country since the introduction of a varicella vaccine in 1995.

More than a decade of varicella prevention in the United States has resulted in a dramatic decline in the disease and related complications, hospitalizations, and deaths, the CDC reports in the Sept. 3 issue of Pediatrics. Before the vaccine, four million Americans a year contracted chickenpox, resulting in 11,000 hospitalizations and more than 140 deaths.

However, one dose of the vaccine has proved insufficient to prevent transmission, especially in high-contact settings such as schools, leading the CDC to recommend a two-dose varicella vaccine program for children in 2006.

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