Chicken pox vaccine reduces shingles risk in kids -- study of 172,000 kids used EHRs
Friday, December 4, 2009 - 07:56
in Health & Medicine
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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