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Ignoring danger puts 100 kids at chickenpox risk
JANE HANSEN
The Daily Telegraph
June 26, 2013 10:00PM
MORE than 100 children have been hospitalised suffering severe complications of chickenpox, with alarmingly low rates of vaccination against the disease being blamed.
Of 133 children treated for chickenpox complications in NSW hospitals from 2007 to 2010, only 16 were vaccinated, a University of Sydney study found.
Professor Elizabeth Elliot, whose study was published in the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, said the findings were disturbing given the vaccination for chickenpox has been on the childhood immunisation schedule since 2005...
News
Ignoring danger puts 100 kids at chickenpox risk
JANE HANSEN
The Daily Telegraph
June 26, 2013 10:00PM
MORE than 100 children have been hospitalised suffering severe complications of chickenpox, with alarmingly low rates of vaccination against the disease being blamed.
Of 133 children treated for chickenpox complications in NSW hospitals from 2007 to 2010, only 16 were vaccinated, a University of Sydney study found.
Professor Elizabeth Elliot, whose study was published in the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, said the findings were disturbing given the vaccination for chickenpox has been on the childhood immunisation schedule since 2005...