Two are better than one when it comes to chicken pox vaccinations, scientists report online January 5 in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
The chicken pox shot, first made available in the United States in 1995, has already proved able to prevent the disease in about 80 to 85 percent of children who get a single dose.
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