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AK Spike in chickenpox cases reported on Kenai Peninsula

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Source: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/spike-chickenpox-cases-reported-kenai-peninsula

Spike in chickenpox cases reported on Kenai Peninsula
Alaska Dispatch | Sep 28, 2012

Public health officials with the state of Alaska have issued a warning about a spike in chickenpox cases on the Kenai Peninsula.

All nine cases of varicella (chickenpox) that were reported to state epidemiologists in September came from unvaccinated or incompletely vaccinated children in Homer and Soldotna, two of the largest communities on the Kenai Peninsula, according to a health alert Friday from the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services...
 
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Source: http://www.alaskapublic.org/2012/10/01/chickenpox-outbreak-hits-homer-soldotna/

Chickenpox Outbreak Hits Homer, Soldotna
By Aaron Selbig, KBBI - Homer | October 1, 2012 - 3:17 pm

An outbreak of chickenpox in Soldotna and Homer has state public health officials worried about the high number of local children who are not receiving vaccinations.

An above-average number of reported cases of chickenpox, varicella by its scientific name, have worried state public health officials enough that they sent out a statewide alert Friday. So far, in just the month of September, nine cases of chickenpox been reported on the Kenai Peninsula, three of them in Soldotna and six in Homer...
 
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