Because vaccination programs have been so successful, very few people know someone who had polio, and a lot of parents of young children never even had chickenpox, he says.

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There is also a chickenpox vaccine, given to children, which is at least 70 percent effective in preventing chickenpox infection.

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Her two children, aged 8 and 4, had just been through bouts of chickenpox.

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