The Montgomery County Health Department is reporting a chicken pox outbreak at the Cambridge School on Baldwin's campus in Bryn Mawr. Five infants, under the age of 12 months, have been identified as having chicken pox, according to health department spokeswoman Harriet Morton.
Chicken pox vaccines are for kids 12 months or older, and administered in a series of two shots. There are eleven babies at the school, under the age of one, that haven't gotten the vaccine yet, according to Cambridge School officials. The school says no older kids have been affected.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, complications from chicken pox include bacterial infection of the skin, swelling of the brain, and pneumonia.
The Cambridge School is in the process of notifying parents.
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