Chicken Pox Case Prompts Review on Proper Vaccine Usage.

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | Date: December 12, 2002 | Copyright information

By Raja Mishra, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 12--A chicken pox outbreak two years ago at a New Hampshire day-care center has federal officials questioning whether the standard chicken pox vaccine protects children as well as previously thought.

In the outbreak, 25 children became sick with chicken pox even though most of them had been vaccinated, according to findings published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.

"We didn't think the vaccine's effectiveness was anywhere that low," said Dr. Karin Galil, the former federal ...

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