Chicken Pox Vaccine May Also Reduce Risk of Shingles Among Children | Kaiser Permanente News Center

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Chicken Pox Vaccine May Also Reduce Risk of Shingles Among Children | Kaiser Permanente News Center

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.' The study, the largest of its kind, used electronic health records to identify more than 170,000 children vaccinated with the varicella (chicken pox) vaccine from 2002 to 2008 in Kaiser Permanente's Southern California region, then followed children for an average of two and a

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