Michiaki Takahashi chickenpox vaccine

 Who created the chickenpox vaccine?

According to Mayoclinic.org, chickenpox is an infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus. It can spread when a person with chickenpox coughs or sneezes and you inhale the air droplets. It is visible as an itchy rash with small, fluid-filled blisters. It is said to be highly contagious to people who haven’t had the disease or been vaccinated against it. “It leads to itchy skin rash which is called as pleomorphic rash (has all stages of rash like macular papules, vesicles) in adults and children. These rashes will be seen all over the body, except arms and legs are not affected as much,” said Dr Vikrant Shah, consulting physician, intensivist and infection disease specialist, Zen Multispeciality Hospital Chembur

Michiaki Takahashi (1928-2013) successfully developed the first live attenuated varicella vaccine in the world.

When was chickenpox vaccine created?

In the early 1990s, an average of 4 million people got chickenpox, 10,500 to 13,000 were hospitalized, and 100 to 150 died each year. Chickenpox vaccine became available in the United States in 1995.