The United Kingdom’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI) has recommended adding chickenpox vaccination to their routine childhood immunization program. Likely, the recommendation will be approved, and the United Kingdom will join Australia, Canada, Germany and the United States in routinely vaccinating children against chickenpox. This delay may seem a little odd as the United States has been vaccinating for over two decades. So, why the late change of heart in the United Kingdom?
Everyone agrees that chickenpox is a nuisance. Without vaccination, most everyone catches it during childhood, and it causes an itchy, blistering rash that lasts about a week. Other symptoms include fever, headache, tiredness and a loss of appetite. Most recover without problems, but on rare occasions, it leads to pneumonia, brain inflammation and skin, bloodstream, bone or joint infections. People at high risk for severe disease are those with problems with their immune system for reasons such as cancer therapy or organ transplantation.
Vaccine Smarts is written by Sealy Institute for Vaccine Sciences faculty members Drs. Megan Berman, an associate professor of internal medicine, and Richard Rupp, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas Medical Branch. For questions about vaccines, email vaccine.smarts@utmb.edu.
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