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Britain's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI)is considering incorporating the chickenpox vaccine into the existing MMR triple vaccine, creating a 4-in-1 shot: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/healt...ox-jab-children-pregnant-women.html Data:  There are around 300,000 cases of CP/yer in the UK In 999 cases/1000 CP is a trivial illness (Prof Adam Finn. Paediatriciacian, Bristol University Medical School) Most people make a full recovery, but several hundred suffere complications such as pneumonia, blood poisoning, infection by flesh-eating bacteria. CP claims up to 50 lives/year, 40 of them children.There are concerns that vaccinating ahgainst CP could cause an up surge of shingles in adults.
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