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Kindergarten registration set  -  20 Feb 2008
News Transcript,...three doses of Polio vaccine, MMR, three doses of Hepatitis B vaccine and one dose of Varicella vaccine or a history of chicken pox.

Debate regarding appropriateness of novel dominates much of meeting  -  20 Feb 2008
Mexico Ledger,Also, chicken pox (aka varicella) vaccine - or proof of the disease prior to school entry - is required. Unanimously approved a proposal to offer rent-free

20 Kissimmee students diagnosed with chicken pox  -  Feb 14, 2008
Orlando Sentinel,Officials are recommending the vaccine for those who have never received the Varicella vaccine, have never had chicken pox or have had only one dose of the

Chicken Pox Outbreak in Local Schools  -  Feb 11, 2008
WIBW,The Sedgwick County Health Department offers the Varicella vaccine to the public for $102. The vaccine is also available for uninsured children who meet

Stress, age increase likelihood of shingles  -  Feb 17, 2008
Daytona Beach News-Journal,By HE COHEN, MD Q. What is shingles and what can you tell me about the new vaccine for shingles? Shingles is the reactivation of the Varicella zoster virus.

Chicken Pox Outbreak Strikes Osceola Co. School  -  Feb 13, 2008
WESH.com,The Florida Department of Health is recommending vaccination for any students at Mill Creek Elementary who have never received the Varicella vaccine and

Valley chickenpox rates static even as Texas cases jump  -  Jan 25, 2008
Monitor,Since the 2000-2001 school year, Texas has required that children receive one dose of varicella vaccine before starting school, but the state hasn’t yet

Outbreak Of Chicken Pox Reported At Central Fla. School  -  Feb 13, 2008
Local6.com,The Florida Department of Health is recommending vaccinating the children at Mill Creek Elementary who have never received the Varicella vaccine and never

Rankin County kindergarten registration set  -  Jan 29, 2008
Jackson Clarion Ledger,...including two doses of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and two doses of Varicella vaccine, unless the child has a history of chicken pox.

El Paso leads state in child vaccination compliance rate  -  Jan 23, 2008
El Paso Times,The varicella vaccine can prevent the disease. School-age children are told to stay home until the nurse has evidence the lesions have "scabbed over and

Chickenpox cases on the rise  -  Jan 29, 2008
Daily News & Analysis,The Varicella vaccine, at over Rs1,500, is an expensive but highly effective precaution. “It is a single shot given when the child is one year old and it

MG kindergarten roundup starts March 6  -  Feb 7, 2008
Marion Chronicle Tribune,...entrance: Series of 5 Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus (DPT), Series of 4 Polio, Series of 3 Hepatitis B, Series of 2 MMR and 1 dose of Varicella Vaccine.

Student immunization requirements change for 2008-09  -  Feb 6, 2008
Sauk Prairie Eagle,Students entering kindergarten, sixth and 12th grades must receive two doses of varicella vaccine to ward against chicken pox.

Experts urge varicella vaccine rethink  -  Dec 4, 2007
ArabianBusiness.com,...the routine immunisation of children with varicella vaccine, after a report highlighted the incidence of severe complications and death among sufferers.

Chickenpox vaccine waived for schools  -  Nov 26, 2007
Jackson Clarion Ledger,The state Department of Health reported today it is waiving the two-dose requirement for the varicella vaccine (chickenpox vaccine) for children entering

Vaccine Shortage Affects Schools  -  Nov 28, 2007
WTOK,The Department of Health says children entering school this school year will be required to have at least one dose of varicella vaccine or a history of

Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule—United States, October ...  -  Dec 4, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),The yellow bar for varicella vaccine has been extended through all age groups, indicating that the vaccine is recommended for all adults without evidence of

Chickenpox shot made mandatory  -  Dec 14, 2007
Anchorage Daily News (subscription),The chickenpox, or varicella, vaccine has been available since 1995. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends nearly all people who have

After One Shot, Chickenpox Is Down But Not Out  -  Dec 6, 2007
Voice of San Diego,As chickenpox pops up in San Diego County schools, parents are learning the limits of the varicella vaccine. All California students get a single dose of

National, State, and Local Area Vaccination Coverage Among ...  -  Dec 4, 2007
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),...which indicated increases in national coverage with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) and varicella vaccine (VAR) and a stable coverage level for the

Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule: United States, October ...  -  Oct 18, 2007
Annals of Internal MedicineAll adults without evidence of immunity to varicella should receive 2 doses of single-antigen varicella vaccine unless they have a medical contraindication.

Adult Vaccination: New Guidelines  -  Oct 19, 2007
WebMDBy Miranda Hitti Varicella vaccine: This vaccine, which targets the chickenpox virus, is now recommended for all adults without evidence of immunity to

Chickenpox outbreak hits Angelina County  -  Oct 15, 2007
Lufkin Daily News,..."If you or your child have not received any / or the second booster dose of Varicella vaccine, OR have not had an actual case of chickenpox AND participated

Chicken pox cases reported at two schools  -  Oct 3, 2007
Lawrence Journal World,The health department is offering the varicella vaccine for free to at-risk children and staff members. The department is open until 7 pm today and will be

Chicken pox defeated for now, but likely to return  -  Oct 5, 2007
Lawrence Journal World,Parents were able to prove their children already had the chicken pox or received the varicella vaccine. Fifteen children came to the health department to

Novavax Reports on Discovery Program for Varicella Zoster Virus ...  -  Sep 12, 2007
FDA news (subscription),Novavax announced that several candidates have emerged from an ongoing discovery program to create a novel vaccine for preventing disease associated with

Merck Vaccine Issues Spur Letter, Meeting  -  Aug 29, 2007
American Family PhysicianThose vaccines are Merck's measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine, or MMRV, sold as ProQuad, and the adult and pediatric formulations of its hepatitis A

Nation's Childhood Immunization Rates Remain at or above record levels  -  Sep 1, 2007
SpiritIndia,Varicella vaccine coverage increased from 87.9 percent in 2005 to 89.3 percent in 2006, and poliovirus vaccine coverage increased from 91.7 percent to 92.9

Healthy People 2010 Goals Unmet for Adolescent Vaccinations  -  Aug 31, 2007
Medscape (subscription)In addition, there has been little (for pneumococcal conjugate vaccine and varicella vaccine) to no (for the 4:3:1:3:3:1 vaccine series) change in

US Teens Fall Short on Vaccine Coverage  -  Aug 30, 2007
Forbes,But about 60 percent of teens had gotten the tetanus-diphtheria vaccine or the tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis vaccine, or the varicella vaccine.

CDC: More Young Children Vaccinated; Adolescents Way Behind  -  Aug 30, 2007
Associated Content,...diphtheria and acellular pertussis vaccine, and one dose of varicella vaccine for those who have not previously had chickenpox.

Vaccines provide the best shot at prevention  -  Aug 17, 2007
Gloucester Daily Times,The supply of varicella vaccine has now increased so that catch-up doses can also be provided to 11- and 12-year-olds who have not yet received a second

More American Children Being Vaccinated Each Year  -  Aug 31, 2007
Medical News Today,...diphtheria and acellular pertussis vaccine, and one dose of varicella vaccine (only if they have not previously had chickenpox). For the older vaccines,

Putnam reminds parents to have schoolchildren vaccinated  -  Aug 30, 2007
The Journal News / Lohud.com,It is recommended that all children receive two doses of the varicella vaccine. All children entering school must also show proof of having received a

School-Entry Requirements Effective in Increasing Vaccination Coverage  -  Aug 17, 2007
Medscape (subscription)Coverage ranged from 32 states (74%) with more than 95% coverage for varicella vaccine to 35 states (83%) with more than 95% coverage for hepatitis B

Students starting school must have vaccinations  -  Aug 21, 2007
Palm Beach Post,This is the first year that students in sixth grade must have the varicella vaccine. Students in grades seven to 12 must have an additional tetanus booster.

Motives Behind Vaccine Requirements Questioned  -  Aug 22, 2007
Suffolk Life Newspapers,But Palevsky argues that the main reason for giving children the varicella vaccine is purely economic. "It is to keep parents from having to miss work by

Back-to-school: There's still time to get those shots  -  Sep 5, 2007
Baltimore Community Times,Chicken pox (varicella) vaccine is also required for 10th graders, or a medical diagnosis proving the student already had the virus.

Vaccinations recommended before school starts  -  Aug 18, 2007
Omak Okanogan County Chronicle,Kids starting kindergarten, first grade and sixth grade must get the chickenpox (varicella) vaccine or document they've had the disease, according to the

From the Desk of Senator Kemp Hannon  -  Aug 24, 2007
Garden City Life,Varicella vaccine recommendations are updated. The first dose should be administered at age 12-15 months, and a newly recommended second dose should be

Vaccine Programs for Kids Need a Shot in the Arm  -  Aug 7, 2007
Scientific American...kids against pneumococcus; five states said they lacked funds to provide hepatitis A vaccines and two states did not supply varicella vaccine or Tdap.

Inner source of healing  -  Jul 5, 2007
Melbourne Herald Sun,Both groups were then given a dose of the varicella vaccine and more blood tests were done to measure immunity levels nine weeks later.

New vaccinations offered for youth  -  Jul 6, 2007
Enterprise-Record,Two new immunizations for infants are the rotavirus vaccine, given orally, and the varicella vaccine, administered as a shot.

Vaccine Committee Recommends Two-Shot Varicella Regimen  -  Jun 22, 2007
MedPage Today,By Peggy Peck, Managing Editor, MedPage Today ATLANTA, June 22 -- Varicella vaccine should be administered in a two-dose regimen with the first dose at 12

CDC to issue final chicken pox vaccine recommendations this summer  -  Jun 12, 2007
Buffalo News,The varicella vaccine was introduced in the United States in 1995 as a single shot given to children ages 12 to 18 months, and by many accounts,

WHAT'S UP DOC?: Shingles in quite common  -  05 Jun 2007
MetroWest Daily News,By Dr. Jeff Hersh/Daily News correspondent. Q: My 75-year-old friend has been suffering with a terrible case of shingles. I am 79.

Update on status of licensure, recommendations for new vaccines  -  Jun 1, 2007
AAP News (subscription)Varicella virus vaccine: The AAP policy statement containing recommendations, including those for a second dose of varicella vaccine, is available as an

Supply difficulties expected with MMRV  -  Jun 1, 2007
AAP News (subscription)Full recommendations on use of varicella vaccine in pediatric patients are available on the AAP Member Center at www.aap.org/moc/docs/040907ebreaking.cfm,

Stubborn chickenpox fighting back  -  May 7, 2007
DetNews.com,The varicella vaccine was introduced in the United States in 1995 as a single shot given to children ages 12 to 18 months, and by many accounts,

Pneumococcal Vaccination Funding Welcomed  -  May 8, 2007
Scoop.co.nz,Varicella vaccine prevents infection and reduces the spread of the disease in out communities. We are not looking after our most vulnerable children well

Withholding vaccination puts everyone at risk  -  May 13, 2007
Boston Globe,The playgroup mom's 15-month-old was at risk because the mom had decided to separate the components of the measles-mumps-rubella-varicella vaccine normally

On Call: Make sure you understand signs of shingles  -  May 15, 2007
The Daily Advertiser,You only can get shingles if you've had chickenpox or the varicella vaccine. If your immune system didn't eliminate the entire virus during the initial

Chicken pox strikes state capital  -  May 31, 2007
Times of India,And how effective is the Varicella vaccine administered to prevent chicken pox, physician Dr PK Verma says: "No vaccine is 100% effective in preventing the

Law requires additional vaccinations for students  -  May 8, 2007
Colorado Springs Gazette,Kindergartners this year must get a second dose of the varicella vaccine for chicken pox, Ashton said. Public health officials found that one dose wasn’t

FDA wants more data on Merck & Co's injectable Emend  -  May 14, 2007
Pharma Times (subscription),US regulators have told Merck & Co that it will need to provide more data before approval is granted for Emend, an experimental injectable drug for nausea

Outbreak of chicken pox virus hits a Watertown school  -  May 7, 2007
News 10 Now,And all six students had received the varicella vaccine. "It was kind of surprising but not unheard of but by the time we got to the third one I was begging

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