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Chickenpox Vaccine
Epidemiology of chickenpox is changing in Alberta
February 8th, 2006
The epidemiology of chickenpox is changing in Alberta. "Varicella vaccine was licensed in Canada in 1998. The province of Alberta introduced a universal publicly funded varicella vaccination program in 2001. This study was done to describe the epidemiology of non-fatal cases of chickenpox for which publicly funded health services were utilized for the period 1986-2002," investigators in Canada report. "We used the records of Alberta's universal, publicly funded health care insurance system to identify cases of chickenpox for the period 1986-2002. The earliest dated utilization of a health service for which there was an ICD9-CM code of 052.xx or an...
Source: Immunotherapy Weekly (2006-02-08)
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