Chicken pox vaccine

Photo: Chicken pox vaccine( from The Research Foundation

                for Microbial Disease of Osaka University )

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1) What is Chicken pox ?  

    see → http://keiji-hagiwara.blogspot.com/2008/07/chickenpox.html

2) Chicken pox vaccine was first developed by Dr.Michiaki

    Takahashi, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, 

    Osaka University in early 1970'.

  

   The Oka strain of varicella-zoster virus isolated from vesicles 

  of a 3-year-old boy with typical Varicella was serially passaged 

  11 times in human embryonic lungs cells and 12 times in guinea

  pig embryo cells, and further passaged in human diploid cells

  several times.

Any questions:  write to Keiji Hagiwara, MD                    

                                       keijihagiwara@gmail.com