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Chickenpox vaccine - is it compulsory?

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 23 November 2015 - 18:14

Hello,

I'm moving to the UAE in January with my husband and 19 month old daughter. My little one has had all of the vaccines recommended in the UK (along with vaccines for meningitis and hepatitis, which we've paid for privately). The chickenpox vaccine is not recommended for children in the UK but I've read somewhere that it is compulsory in the UAE for all children at 12 months. Can anyone advise me of what the actual situation is? Will I need to get my little one vaccinated before we arrive in the UAE? Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks ?

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 02 January 2016 - 10:48
Yes, the chicken pox vaccine has been made compulsory for babies under one from next year. All children – from ostracizes and nationals – will be required to have the immunization against the infectious malady when it gets to be accessible toward the end of the year, the National reports on Thursday. The antibody will be complimentary, the Ministry of Health said. "The accessibility of this sort of an immunization will diminish the course of the infection at a worldwide level, so kids don't contaminate each other," Dr Mahmoud Fikri, the service's official executive of wellbeing enactment and approaches, said. "The world has turned into a town, and if a kid in the US or Japan is inoculated, then a youngster in the UAE ought to be immunized too, the length of we have the abilities to give the antibody." The antibody has been accessible in the UAE since 2000, yet just controlled on the exhortation of a specialist, the paper reported. "Since it is endorsed by the World Heath Organization and incorporated into the national vaccination projects of nations around the world, we have prescribed that it affirmed to be a piece of our system in the UAE too, and it has been acknowledged," Fikiri s