The World Health Organization even includes the varicellavaccine on its list of essential medicines.
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The varicellavaccine can prevent both chickenpox and shingles, a later complication of the disease.
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Data now accumulating suggest that the varicellavaccine as used in the United States has so far been highly effective.
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Summary: Good evidence already supports the administration of varicellavaccine to healthy susceptible family contacts of children with malignancy, but not to patients themselves.
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The addition of varicellavaccine to the universal childhood immunization schedule in the United States in 1995 can be seen as a bold step.
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A senior paediatric surgeon says the government is neglectful and irresponsible for not fully funding the chickenpoxvaccine to all children.
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It is China's second-largest producer of rabies and chickenpoxvaccines, the company said in its 2017 annual report.