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I'm Will Tingle.

And coming up, why, after many years,

chickenpox vaccines for children finally look set to become the norm in the UK.

Also, will artificial intelligence beat our weather forecasters and could certain

comets seed the biological building blocks of life to planets like Earth?

From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, this is the Naked Scientists. The UK's leading authority on vaccinations, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization,

has advised that all children in the UK should be given a chicken pox jab at 12 and 18 months of age.

Until now, parents have had to go privately and pay to protect their child against the virus.

Our regular host Dr Chris Smith is a consultant virologist and has the story.

Chicken Box is one of the most common infections in humans.

And if I picked a person at random off the street here in the UK, but equally it's going to be true in the majority

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