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Do i need to get a chicken pox vaccine?

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Dr. Dominic Riganotti answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

Depends: I'm assuming your not asking for yourself (a 26yo in the school and college system is required to have boosters on certain vaccinations). Otherwise blood serum can be checked for protective levels of varicella antibodies. If low..then boostering can be ordered. Secondly..is it needed? Is the person immunocompromised, very elderly etc.

Answered 2/9/2015

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