Chicken pox vaccine reduces shingles risk in kids -- study of 172,000 kids used EHRs

Friday, December 4, 2009 - 02:21 in Health & Medicine

December 4 , 2009 (Oakland, Calif.) -- Herpes zoster, also known as shingles, is very rare among children who have been vaccinated against chicken pox, according to a Kaiser Permanente study in the December issue of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal.

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