Varicella: Recommended vaccinations
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  General recommendation
  Recommendation for specific groups only
  Catch-up (e.g. if previous doses missed)
 		 Vaccination not funded by the National Health system
 		 Mandatory vaccination
MonthsYears
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Austria
VAR1
VAR
Belgium
VAR2
Bulgaria
VAR3
VAR3
Croatia
VAR4
Cyprus
VAR
VAR
Czechia
VAR
VAR
VAR
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
VAR5
VAR5
France
Germany
VAR
VAR
VAR
VAR
Greece
VAR
VAR
VAR
VAR
VAR6
Hungary
VAR7
VAR7
Iceland
VAR
VAR
Ireland
VAR
VAR8
Italy
VAR
VAR
Latvia
VAR
VAR9
VAR10
Liechtenstein
VAR
VAR
VAR11
Lithuania
Luxembourg
VAR
VAR
Malta
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
VAR
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
VAR12
VAR13
Spain
VAR
VAR
VAR14
Sweden

Footnotes:

  1. Vaccination is recommended from the age of 1 year. Further, the vaccination is recommended for all non-immune adults up to the age of 60. Two doses with an interval of 6 weeks. More information: https://www.sozialministerium.gv.at/impfplan (p. 124ff)
  2. For healthy susceptible close household contacts of immunocompromised patients and healthcare workers. For adolescents and adults with no antecedents of varicella (after serological testing). Two doses of varicella vaccine, four to eight weeks apart.
  3. Varicella vaccine will be in place as mandatory vaccination since 1st July 2026. 2 doses scheme is recommended: 1 st dose at age 12-15 months and 2nd at 4 years of age.
  4. Vaccination is recommended and funded by Croatian Health Insurance for certain at risk groups (children and adults- for example: seronegative persons with certain medical conditions and therapy, seronegative HCW working at neonatal, pediatric, infectious disease, and hematology departments)
  5. Further information available at https://thl.fi/fi/web/infektiotaudit-ja-rokotukset/rokotteet-a-o/vesirokkorokote
  6. For unvaccinated individuals born after 1990. Two doses recommended to people belonging to specific occupational categories , please refer to official recommendations. Women found to be seronegative during pregnancy should be vaccinated with 2 doses in the postpartum period.
  7. Children born after 31 July 2018 (mandatory)
  8. Varicella vaccine will be available as MMRV in Ireland to all babies born after 1st October 2024 when they are in junior infants (aged 4-5 usually) in school.
  9. Six-year-old children may be vaccinated with vaccinations for 7-year-old children, if the child is beginning to study in an educational institution.
  10. If not previously vaccinated, 2 doses are required. Vaccination against varicella should be performed with no history of disease.
  11. Catch-up (2 doses at least 4 weeks apart) in young adults (<40 years of age) with no history of past infection.
  12. MMRV vaccine is used https://nijz.si/nalezljive-bolezni/cepljenje/navodila-in-priporocila-za-cepljenje/
  13. Using MMRV vaccine. Second dose will be administered at 3 years of age (from 2027 onwards) starting with birth cohort that received a first dose of MMRV vaccine in 2025.
  14. 2 doses recommended at 4+ week-interval (preferably 8 weeks) to individuals with no documented history of disease and no documented prior vaccination (in the case of adults, vaccination is recommended if IgG serology for varicella is negative).