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Chickenpox: why the UK has approved the MMRV vaccine in under-fours but the US is preparing to restrict it

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par Helen McDonald, Senior Lecturer, Life Sciences, University of Bath

Two countries, two different approaches to protecting children from chickenpox. While the UK prepares to introduce a combined vaccine covering measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox (MMRV) in a single jab, the US is moving in the opposite direction – restricting parents’ ability to choose that same combination for their youngest children.

Just as the US has just celebrated 30 years of chickenpox vaccination, advisers to its health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, voted against the use of the MMRV…

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