Anti-vaccine community behind North Carolina chickenpox outbreak - Sensationalist Headlines

And it's shit like this that make me fear sending my child to school in this age of stupidity. She has her shots thankfully. This happened in my town too. No surprise. We have protesters outside the health departments at least once or twice a year. There was also a underground ring of parents letting their kids get together to purposely get sick. Social services stepped in on some families cuz it was endangering the children.

For anyone wondering how this works, it's because the chicken pox virus never actually leaves your body, and shingles is the result of the virus flaring up again later in life before finally dying down for good. But it'll always be inside of you.

I got chickenpox as a small kid and i always thought you were suppose to get it early on to get immunity for it and that everyone would get it. I didn't even know there was a vaccine for it. All i got in it was the sores and that it was itchy but i can't remember getting awfully sick from it.

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Shingles is pretty harmless tho. It'll hurt, but other than that not much. Unless you've got it on your head, that is. If you've got it on your head it can result in splitting headaches for up to 6 months after it's gone, and if you get it in your optic nerve it'll burn it out completely unless caught early enough. I've had shingles 7 times now, every time it's been on my head/over my eyes. Last time it actually got in my eye. Seeing my normally calm and rational doctor go "Think you can be at the hospital in the next town over within 20 minutes? Yeah? Fucking go then, NOW" and having to see a second optometrist because the first wasn't 100% sure it hadn't reached my optic nerve yet is fucking scary as all hell.

I had the vaccine when i was a kid and still got chicken pox. I have a scar on my chest from where i scratched to bone. I remember that shit, it was no fun at all.

You sure it wasn't like maybe the smallpox vaccine?

maybe? i was like, 5 so I couldn't really tell you. regardless, it was not fun. I made sure my kid got every vaccine they could possibly give him.

Since my brother now has to take immunosuppressants for life, this kind of irresponsible cunt piss me off even more. At least he could get vaccinated as a child before his treatment became necessary. But I know others don't have this chance.

Then why is it popular opinion to intentionally infect your kids with chicken pox while they're still young? That doesn't make sense to me.

Chicken pox in adults is very fatal but for some reason it's not in children. That's what I heard.

because people adhere to all kinds of harmful folk remedies

I remember catching chicken pox when I was little so I don't think I got a vaccination, maybe it wasn't introduced at the time. My mother is a doctor so I absolutely would have had it if it were available.

I got it as an infant in 1994 and I remember being told it was still not very common at the time. No excuse today, though. The rationale for "pox parties" that I've heard is that parents viewed it as inevitable that the child would get chicken pox, therefore when one of the children got it on a holiday or some convenient time when it wouldn't be a disruption, all the kids would be sent to go and get it from little Stevie at a pox party. Because you can't get it twice, they then didn't have to worry about it coming up at a more inconvenient time.