Chickenpox Vaccine Effective For A Long Time

Chickenpox, the childhood infection of earlier generations, has been most recently neutralized by the varicella vaccine - a vaccine that has shown long-term effectiveness against the illness, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center. The study findings, published in the journal Pediatrics, were based on a 14-year study consisting of 7,585 children ranging in age from 12 to 23 months. The researchers aimed to examine the long-term effectiveness of the vaccine and its influence on the epidemiology of varicella (chickenpox) and herpes zoster (shingles)...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Immune System / Vaccines Source Type: news