The World Health Organization even includes the varicella vaccine on its list of essential medicines.

The varicella vaccine can prevent both chickenpox and shingles, a later complication of the disease.

Data now accumulating suggest that the varicella vaccine as used in the United States has so far been highly effective.

Summary: Good evidence already supports the administration of varicella vaccine to healthy susceptible family contacts of children with malignancy, but not to patients themselves.

The addition of varicella vaccine to the universal childhood immunization schedule in the United States in 1995 can be seen as a bold step.

We report on a liver transplant recipient with no prior history of VZV infection who was given the varicella vaccine after an indirect VZV exposure.

Using the combined databases of 6 integrated health care organizations, we examined HZ incidence in children over a 12-year period in the varicella vaccine era.

Varicella vaccine is not routinely administered to children in many countries including the UK.

The prevention of herpes zoster may be another use of live attenuated or inactivated varicella vaccines.

Another 67,000-plus received the MMR and varicella vaccines separately, on the same day, between 2000 and 2008.