Varicella
Higher Chickenpox Vaccination Rates Decrease Disease Even In The Unvaccinated
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, May 22nd, 2001
With more than 60% of children being vaccinated, the "vaccine has been administered to a high enough proportion of the children in the population that incidence of varicella disease has decreased within the unvaccinated population," Dr. Dennis Clements of the Duke Children's Hospital wrote in the April 2001 issue of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. "This study shows that the varicella vaccine is extremely effective even given partial use in the population."
The study involved 4,064 children in 11 private day care centers in North Carolina between 1995 and 1999. Overall, vaccine coverage increased from 4.4% in 1995 to 63.1% in 1999. There...
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