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Re: varicella vaccine

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In a message dated 97-11-20 12:24:51 EST,  writes:

> If there's
> not a whole lot of wild varicella floating around in the future, even
> people who had natural varicella as a child could find themselves
> susceptible as adults because they haven't had periodic immune boosts.
> I've not seen this potential concern discussed much.

Then we'll give a booster sometime later, just like we started doing with the
MMR several years ago.

Moshe Adler, MD