Ep 76 Chickenpox: There's always a 'but'
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The History of Varicellis Zoster Virus
In the early 1970s, a Japanese researcher named Michiaki Takahashi isolated a strain of the varicellis zoster virus from a three year old boy. He developed a live attenuated vaccine, AKA the Oka vaccine, which was after the last name of the boy. Within a few years, Maurice Hilliman, if you remember that name from our vaccines episode,. let's hear it from Maurice. For recent colleagues, worked on one in the US based off of this Oka strain. And in 1984, the first varicelles vaccines became commercially available.
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