La importancia de dos dosis de vacuna para varicela.

Chickenpox Cases Continue To Decline In US Since Start Of Two-Dose Vaccine, CDC Says.

HealthDay (9/1, Steele) reports, "Chickenpox – which is caused by the varicella-zoster virus – has continued declining in the United States since 2006, when doctors began routinely recommending a second dose of chickenpox (varicella) vaccine," CDC health officials announced yesterday. In fact, "states reporting vaccination data noted an 85 percent drop in the highly contagious disease between 2005-2006 and 2013-2014, according to a" CDC study published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The biggest drop in cases was seen among children "aged 5 to 14, health officials said."