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Re: Varicella (again)

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> OBTW, has any seen a vaccine that the AAP does not "love" and endorse?
> Andrew

The AAP and ACIP weren't too crazy about a prior RSV vaccine.  In
clinical trials, the kids who got the vaccine got sicker than the kids
who didn't.  It was probably due to the fact that the bulk of clinical
symptoms are due to immune response and not the infection itself.

Either way, that vaccine didn't quite make it.

As a general rule, it seems to me that the AAP should love anything that
decreases the amount of illness in children.

Andrew M. Eisen, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
University of Nevada School of Medicine