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Since chicken pox is just an itchy nuisance for most kids rather than a real danger, American health officials have been in no great hurry to come up with a vaccine. A shot was developed in Japan and has been tested in the U.S. for a decade, amid criticism that the effort was not worth the expense. Now, at long last, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is preparing to decide whether all kids should be protected against the pox...
...vaccine would have clear virtues. Despite its less-than-fearsome reputation, chicken pox causes up to 100 deaths a year, can in rare instances produce birth defects, and is responsible for untold millions of dollars in wages lost by parents staying home to tend to their sick children...
...quarters and pensively bite his lower lip. "As working parents," one can imagine him saying, "Hillary and I understand the anguish of searching for quality day care for children." He could insert some touching anecdote about the time Hillary and he were on the road, Chelsea had the chicken pox and the baby- sitter failed to show. He might also mention that the lack of reliable, affordable child care is the single biggest obstacle to getting poor women off welfare and into jobs. The arduous search for a woman Attorney General, he would then admit, has only underscored the nation...
Traditionally, doctors inject patients with live but mutated forms of viruses which cause diseases such as polio, measles and small pox in order to elicit a mild immune response. The body then relies on its immune "memory" to respond and effectively to another attack, and becomes protected against future infections...
...Cincinnati Reds snap out of their current swoon in time to give the Atlanta Braves a run for Ted Turner's money? Oh, and how come the Oakland A's, riven with disabled players, traded stud slugger Jose Canseco to the Texas Rangers for a guy with chicken pox...