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Experts and the Ombudsman for Children call for the chickenpox vaccine to be included in the National Immunisation Programme

Tuesday 12.04.2016 klo 00:00

Practically everyone gets chickenpox. The clinical picture varies from mild symptoms to complicated and potentially life-threatening illness. Experts say the vaccine would eradicate chickenpox from Finland in a couple of years. The chickenpox vaccine has been used in parts of the world since the 1990s and it has proved to be safe for the subject.