The chickenpox vaccine may also significantly reduce a child’s risk of shingles, a large study released on Monday finds.
The chickenpox vaccine appears to offer benefits beyond keeping the childhood illness at bay: It may also significantly reduce a child’s risk of shingles, a large study released Monday finds.
In the study, the researchers looked at the medical records of more than 6 million children and teenagers. About 3 million had received the chickenpox, or varicella, vaccine, and about 3 million had not. unvaccinated childrenAnother way to look at those numbers is to calculate how many children out of 100,000 would get shingles, Weinmann told NBC News.
Second, you may have already had the chickenpox before getting vaccinated, but the case was too mild to notice, she said.An attenuated virus, such as the one used in the varicella vaccine, is a strain that has been engineered to be so weakened that it can’t make you sick when you get the vaccine, said Dr. Tina Tan, a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and an infectious disease specialist at the Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Nina Shapiro, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine and the director of pediatric otolaryngology at UCLA, told NBC News that she was also impressed with the new findings.
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