Chickenpox vaccine saves lives and prevents serious illness

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases.
• Description:
  Chickenpox-related deaths in the U.S. have decreased dramatically.
  
  [Graph depicts decline in number of deaths per year from more than 120 in 1994 to fewer than 20 in 2010 while vaccination rate increased from around 10% in 1996, the year that U.S. vaccination program began, to 90% in 2010.]

  
  Before U.S. vaccination began:
  
  • Chickenpox caused more than 100 deaths every year
  
  • Chickenpox caused more than 10,000 hospitalizations every year
  
  • More than 4 million people got chickenpox every year
  
  Since U.S. vaccination began (after 15 years of vaccination):
  
  • 90% decrease in deaths, meaning fewer than 20 people die from chickenpox every year
  
  • 84% fewer hospitalizations, meaning fewer than 1,700 people are hospitalized for chickenpox every year
  
  • 92% fewer cases means fewer than 350,000 people get chickenpox every year
  
  Two doses of vaccine are needed to protect against chickenpox.
  
  Find out more about chickenpox at http://www.cdc.gov/chickenpox/

  
  CS247225-A version 2A
  
  NOV 2014
  
  
• Subjects:
  Chickenpox/prevention & Control Chickenpox Vaccine Vaccination
• Document Type:
  Poster
• Genre:
  Infographic
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  1 infographic
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4249be3d7aaf6bf3c55c3dc7453424d64d0e2a8834e626d5b0ef80a77230dc21
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/26194/cdc_26194_DS1.pdf
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