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That may have been the easy part in dealing with a disease which infected 10,000 Americans last year, researchers say. For Harvard lecturer in Tropical Public Health Sam R. Telford, the next task is to find enough volunteers on which to test the vaccine.
The 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.
But vaccination may have risks of its own. The problem lies with the nature of the chicken-pox virus. After you get it, you always have it in your body. Normally you only suffer from chicken pox once, but the virus can flare up again later in life, producing shingles...
Then there is the economic issue. In a 1985 study, the CDC determined that the medical costs of treating chicken pox were not great enough to warrant spending the money on a national immunization program. However, when the indirect costs of missed work and school time are factored in, advocates...
On the whole, the U.S. medical community seems to favor approving the vaccine. Even in healthy children, chicken pox can weaken the body so that it is susceptible to more hazardous bacterial infections. By warding off chicken pox, the vaccine could prevent secondary complications. In addition, 10 years' worth of...