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jenett ([personal profile] jenett) wrote in [personal profile] ailbhe 2009-02-20 07:31 pm (UTC)

There is a chicken pox vaccine, though I don't know if it's used in the UK - it was developed in France, and is now common in the US.

(I got it as an adult, see my other comment.)

For TB - I know the UK does it, but the US doesn't. Negative TB tine tests (i.e. a skin reaction test to see if you have it or not) are a common requirement of people working in schools and some other jobs in many states. (I had to do one when I worked at my former college, even though I'd just graduated from the same place a month or two earlier.)

My mom had the TB vaccine as a child in the UK, and kept having to do more involved proof that she didn't have it (as the vaccine makes the tine test come out positive.)

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