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How a Vaccine Slowed the Spread of Chicken Pox
The highly contagious disease dates to ancient times and spread easily in households and classroomsâuntil the development of a vaccine.
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The highly contagious disease dates to ancient times and spread easily in households and classroomsâuntil the development of a vaccine.
Chickenpox is a highly contagious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus that leads to itchy skin eruptions, which are sometimes compared to a “dew drop on a rose petal.”
Until the development of a chickenpox vaccine in the late 20th century, the disease was a common childhood illness that could cause serious health problems in people who didn’t contract the disease until adulthood. More than four million people got chickenpox every year in the United States, resulting in more than 10,000 hospitalizations and 100 deaths. Since vaccinations began, those numbers dropped significantly.
Updated: 2:14 PM EDT Aug 4, 2021 By Madeline Holcombe The delta variant now accounts for an estimated 93.4% of coronavirus circulating in the United States, according to figures published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.This includes several sub-lineages of delta, all of which are classified as variants of concern. Together, they made up about 93.4% of cases during the last two weeks of July.This number is even higher in certain parts of the country, including the region that includes Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, where delta accounts for more than 98% of circulating virus.These figures have shown a rapid increase over the past two months. In the two weeks ending May 22, for example, delta s prevalence was estimated around 3%.At that same time in May, another variant first identified in the UK Alpha, or B.1.1.7 was the dominant one in the U.S., causing 69% of cases. Now, CDC s most recent estimates put that variant at just under 3%.