Would a dose of zoster vaccine provide healthcare personnel 60 years of age or older valid evidence of varicella immunity?
Being 60 years of age or older (birth in the U.S. before 1980) is not acceptable evidence of varicella immunity for healthcare personnel. If a healthcare person does not meet one of the other criteria for varicella immunity, two doses of varicella vaccine separated by 4 weeks should be administered, http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr5604.pdf (page 16). A dose of zoster vaccine can be counted as one of the two doses.
Being 60 years of age or older (birth in the U.S. before 1980) is not acceptable evidence of varicella immunity for healthcare personnel. If a healthcare person does not meet one of the other criteria for varicella immunity, two doses of varicella vaccine separated by 4 weeks should be administered, http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr5604.pdf [698KB – 48 pages] (page 16). A dose of zoster vaccine can be counted as one of the two doses.
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