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Chickenpox vaccine
Date: April 30th, 2013
Survey concerning the chickenpox vaccine was used on children for a decade and four years, and research shows that the vaccine has been quite helpful. Three quarter of the children whom which the vaccine was used on have reported to be successful. It works for both chickenpox and shingles.
Cases of children who had chickenpox after being vaccinated had milder cases than those before the vaccine was discovered.
Why use chickenpox vaccine on your child?
The research was led by Roger Baxter, who attained an MD, and works at Kaiser Permanente
Vaccine found in Oakland in California. This research was conducted to see how useful the Study Center vaccine would turn out to be. The research was done for 14 years to make sure there was no faultiness.
The vaccine was recommended for children aged 1 and above; this happened in the year 1995. Later on the CDC advised the producer to generate a booster dose in the month of June, the year 2006. All this was done in the U.S.
Before chickenpox vaccine was available, an immense study had to be done amongst the children. The chickenpox and shingles were compared amongst the children.
Within 365 days, feedback was given. 16 out of 1000 children were infected with chickenpox. This proved that the vaccine was working well and thus efficient.
Any reactions if one is given the dosage more than once?
Kids who got infected with chickenpox even after the drug injection had mild reactions of chickenpox. Children who got the dosage twice did not get the infection, during the second time of the study.
The vaccine was considered three quarter effective due to its efficiency. Unlike other vaccines, this one did not loose its effectiveness as time goes by.
The research showed that Varicella vaccine showed no signs of negatives, during the 14 year research. It proved to be something everyone could count on. Just one prescription was enough to protect one from the disease, a number of cases occurred after the vaccine was administered.
Possibility of children getting shingles after vaccination was low by 40%, this only applied to children who were well vaccinated. This also implies that the vaccine reduces the risks of herpes zoster, only if the child was vaccinated.
After the research, the information was put on paper in Pediatrics journal, on the fool’s day [April first]. Merk Sharp and Dohme Corp saw to it that the article was published. The researchers happened to be Merk employees during the study period and all the three have been given consultancy fee from a number of organizations. The organizations include, Sanofi Pasteur, GlaxoSmithKline and World Health Organization. To man’s surprise, the two authors did not portray any disagreements for wanting to be the greatest.