Confederation updates recommendation: Small children should now be routinely vaccinated against “wild smallpox”.

– Small children are now to be routinely vaccinated against “wild smallpox”.

Switzerland is catching up with 45 other countries and is also recommending vaccination against chickenpox from 2023. Previously, this only applied in special cases.

Posted today at 11:53am

Small children with “poisons”: sometimes a bacterial infection is added to the viral infection.

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Chickenpox is usually a harmless disease with a slight fever, which almost every small child has gone through so far. At some point they are just there, these small red spots, which usually spread all over the body and form itchy blisters. If you scratch yourself now, you can get purulent skin inflammation. Rarely, severe bacterial superinfections with streptococci or staphylococci occur.

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