THE introduction of a chickenpox vaccine in Australia in 2006 has dramatically cut the number of children being hospitalised with the disease, new research has revealed.
A national study has examined the number of chickenpox admissions at four hospitals and has found a 68 per cent fall since the vaccine was introduced.
The study also found that of those children needing to be hospitalised because of severe chickenpox, 80 per cent had not been immunised.
"These results are a very strong endorsement of the impact of the chickenpox vaccine," the study's lead author Helen Marshall from the University of Adelaide said.
Before the vaccine was introduced Australia had an estimated 240,000 chickenpox cases each year, with 1500 hospitalisations and up to 16 deaths.
Based on the study, the number of hospitalisations could now be under 500.
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