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15th January 2019
09:45am GMT

"I do know as a parent of three children, when your kids get chickenpox, on the basis of both parents working, which is the reality for many families now, it does take the parent out of work for up to a week so there is an economic element to this too," he told the Irish Examiner.
Sinn Féin health spokesperson Louise O’Reilly meanwhile argued that the fact that it's only available privately is leaving poorer families at risk of complications like meningitis, pneumonia and shingles.
At least one per cent of children under 15 who catch the chickenpox develop a complication.
The Varivax vaccine is part of the routine public immunisation programmes in countries including the US and Canada.