{"id":4051,"date":"2017-12-11T09:45:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T14:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2017-12-11T09:45:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T14:45:39","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-children-aged-4-17-years-who-had-ever-had-varicella-chickenpox-by-age-group-national-health-interview-survey-2007-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2017\/12\/11\/4051\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Children Aged 4\u201317 Years Who Had Ever Had Varicella (Chickenpox), by Age Group \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, 2007\u20132016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6648a7.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/figures\/mm6648a7-F.GIF\" width=\"434\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During 2007\u20132016, the percentage of children aged 4\u201317 years who had ever had chickenpox decreased among both younger children (aged 4\u201311 years) and older children (aged 12\u201317 years).<\/p>\n<p>Among younger children, the percentage of children who had ever had chickenpox declined by 73.9%, from 16.1% in 2007 to 4.2% in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Among older children the percentage who had ever had chickenpox declined by 76.9%, from 61.4% in 2007 to 14.2% in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>During 2007\u20132016, older children were more likely than younger children to have ever had chickenpox.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2007\u20132016<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6648a7.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6648a7.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2007\u20132016, the percentage of children aged 4\u201317 years who had ever had chickenpox decreased among both younger children (aged 4\u201311 years) and older children (aged 12\u201317 years). Among younger children, the percentage of children who had ever had chickenpox declined by 73.9%, from 16.1% in 2007 to 4.2% in 2016. Among older children the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}