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Kiara Boisvert, age 5, receives chickenpox booster vaccination from Amy Moran, clinical assistant at Intermed in South Portland. (Photo of Gregory Rec / Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)Getty
Well, what could happen in a school where most children do not get the chickenpox vaccine? How about an outbreak of chicken pox?
This week, this school is the Asheville Waldorf School, a private school located in North Carolina. According to Sam DeGrave, who writes for Asheville Citizen Times last Friday, the highly contagious chickenpox virus, which causes chicken pox, had already infected at least 36 children in school. It is already the largest epidemic of chicken pox in the country in two decades. And what happened about two decades ago? It was about the same time that the chickenpox vaccine arrived on the American market in 1995. Here is a report from NBC News on the epidemic:
In fact, 110 of the school's 152 students had not received the varicella vaccine, even though the State Council asked them to do so. Did all these students have medical reasons not to receive the vaccine? Were the 110 students all pregnant, which would have been very unusual for students in grades one through eight? Did most of these students take aspirin, blood transfusion, tuberculosis or chronic immunosuppression? Did they all have life-threatening allergies to the vaccine? No. On the contrary, as DeGrave writes, "during the 2017-2018 school year, the latest for which data was available, Asheville Waldorf had a higher rate of religious exemptions for vaccination than all other schools in the state except two.. "
In other words, many parents of school children have decided that their children should not receive a very effective vaccine against chickenpox. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a vaccine dose is 85% effective at preventing all forms of chickenpox (the medical name of chickenpox) and at nearly 100% for severe chickenpox. Two doses are even better: an efficacy of 88% to 98% in the prevention of any form of chickenpox and a 100% effectiveness against severe chickenpox.
The CDC recommends that you receive 2 doses of varicella vaccine between 12 months and 12 years of age. Your first dose should be given between 12 and 15 months. Your second dose should be between 4 and 6 years old. If you are older than 12 years old and still not getting the vaccine or chickenpox, you can still be vaccinated provided that the 2 doses are separated by at least 28 days. This will give your immune system enough time to react to the first dose before receiving a boost of the second dose.
The vaccine also has a very good safety record. View the 2008 CDC-FDA Report On patients who received the vaccine from May 1995 to December 2005. As described by the CDC, "the vast majority of people had no side effects or very mild, such as rashes and pain, with the vaccine Serious adverse events related to the vaccine were extremely rare. "
You may think that the problem with chicken pox? If you have had chickenpox before, you may be able to settle for typical symptoms: Fever 5 to 10 days, loss of appetite, headache, feeling tired, and rashes characteristic ranging from pink or red pimples to small blisters through crusts and crusts. Perhaps you have thought that being very irritating and not being able to scratch is not so bad.
But not everyone has that chance. You can contract more serious complications such as pneumonia, encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), cerebellar ataxia, bleeding problems, sepsis and bacterial infections of the skin, soft tissues, bones and blood. You can even die from chicken pox. Yes, these complications are rather rare if you are a healthier child. However, if you are a baby or you reach adulthood, that does not mean that the two do not exclude each other, you could be much more likely to have disease and more serious complications. If your immune system is weakened as a result of your young age or old age, taking medication or a chronic illness, the chances of very bad things happening are even greater. And if you are pregnant, start worrying about what the virus can do for your unborn child, for example by causing underweight or birth defects.
This underestimation of chickenpox has led some parents to organize or find "chickenpox festivals" in order to deliberately infect their children with chicken pox. If you are a child and everyone sends you invitations to attend a "smallpox festival", that does not necessarily mean that you are cool or popular, especially if you happen to be really irritating. You may rather have chickenpox, and they may just use you for your varicella zoster virus. You talk about a sick party. Here is a report on these "parts of the pox":
Then there are parents who mail lollipops, clothes or other items to the spit of children with chicken pox, according to KJ Dell & Antonia writes for Slate. Yes, apparently, parents are trying to send highly contagious viruses through American mail. Here is a situation where you certainly do not want to accidentally receive mail from someone else. It would be quite surprising to expect a treatment package and find a spit-on nozzle.
Speaking of cupping, there are also many people trying to sell you fake "alternatives" to vaccines without any scientific proof to support. These include supplements, herbs, essential oils, homeopathic remedies, chiropractic adjustments and cabbage. These may be some of the same people trying to spread misinformation about vaccines. Therefore, whenever someone is denigrating a recommended vaccine that relies on many scientific studies, also check what he can sell.
None of these other "options" are worth the chickenpox vaccine. Crazy parties and lollipops may not even be able to infect your child. After all, a virus, luckily, may not survive in the mail, and forcing children to interact closely enough to pass on to each other is not only a little strange, but can be quite unpredictable.
It is true that chickenpox is not usually as dangerous as measles, hepatitis B, influenza or many other diseases against which you should be vaccinated. However, chickenpox is not exactly a walk in the park and can have serious consequences for you or for someone else more vulnerable than you infect. Chickenpox can be called chicken not because you turn into chicken, but because it looks like the wimpier "parent" of smallpox. But that does not mean you should never underestimate chicken pox.
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Kiara Boisvert, age 5, receives chickenpox booster vaccination from Amy Moran, clinical assistant at Intermed in South Portland. (Photo of Gregory Rec / Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)Getty
Well, what could happen in a school where most children do not get the chickenpox vaccine? How about an outbreak of chicken pox?
This week, this school is the Asheville Waldorf School, a private school located in North Carolina. According to Sam DeGrave, who writes for Asheville Citizen Times last Friday, the highly contagious chickenpox virus, which causes chicken pox, had already infected at least 36 children in school. It is already the largest epidemic of chicken pox in the country in two decades. And what happened about two decades ago? It was about the same time that the chickenpox vaccine arrived on the American market in 1995. Here is a report from NBC News on the epidemic:
In fact, 110 of the school's 152 students had not received the varicella vaccine, even though the State Council asked them to do so. Did all these students have medical reasons not to receive the vaccine? Were the 110 students all pregnant, which would have been very unusual for students in grades one through eight? Did most of these students take aspirin, blood transfusion, tuberculosis or chronic immunosuppression? Did they all have life-threatening allergies to the vaccine? No. On the contrary, as DeGrave writes, "during the 2017-2018 school year, the latest for which data was available, Asheville Waldorf had a higher rate of religious exemptions for vaccination than all other schools in the state except two.. "
In other words, many parents of school children have decided that their children should not receive a very effective vaccine against chickenpox. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a vaccine dose is 85% effective at preventing all forms of chickenpox (the medical name of chickenpox) and at nearly 100% for severe chickenpox. Two doses are even better: an efficacy of 88% to 98% in the prevention of any form of chickenpox and a 100% effectiveness against severe chickenpox.
The CDC recommends that you receive 2 doses of varicella vaccine between 12 months and 12 years of age. Your first dose should be given between 12 and 15 months. Your second dose should be between 4 and 6 years old. If you are older than 12 years old and still not getting the vaccine or chickenpox, you can still be vaccinated provided that the 2 doses are separated by at least 28 days. This will give your immune system enough time to react to the first dose before receiving a boost of the second dose.
The vaccine also has a very good safety record. View the 2008 CDC-FDA Report On patients who received the vaccine from May 1995 to December 2005. As described by the CDC, "the vast majority of people had no side effects or very mild, such as rashes and pain, with the vaccine Serious adverse events related to the vaccine were extremely rare. "
You may think that the problem with chicken pox? If you have had chickenpox before, you may be able to settle for typical symptoms: Fever 5 to 10 days, loss of appetite, headache, feeling tired, and rashes characteristic ranging from pink or red pimples to small blisters through crusts and crusts. Perhaps you have thought that being very irritating and not being able to scratch is not so bad.
But not everyone has that chance. You can contract more serious complications such as pneumonia, encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), cerebellar ataxia, bleeding problems, sepsis and bacterial infections of the skin, soft tissues, bones and blood. You can even die from chicken pox. Yes, these complications are rather rare if you are a healthier child. However, if you are a baby or you reach adulthood, that does not mean that the two do not exclude each other, you could be much more likely to have disease and more serious complications. If your immune system is weakened as a result of your young age or old age, taking medication or a chronic illness, the chances of very bad things happening are even greater. And if you are pregnant, start worrying about what the virus can do for your unborn child, for example by causing underweight or birth defects.
This underestimation of chickenpox has led some parents to organize or find "chickenpox festivals" in order to deliberately infect their children with chicken pox. If you are a child and everyone sends you invitations to attend a "smallpox festival", that does not necessarily mean that you are cool or popular, especially if you happen to be really irritating. You may rather have chickenpox, and they may just use you for your varicella zoster virus. You talk about a sick party. Here is a report on these "parts of the pox":
Then there are parents who mail lollipops, clothes or other items to the spit of children with chicken pox, according to KJ Dell & Antonia writes for Slate. Yes, apparently, parents are trying to send highly contagious viruses through American mail. Here is a situation where you certainly do not want to accidentally receive mail from someone else. It would be quite surprising to expect a treatment package and find a spit-on nozzle.
Speaking of cupping, there are also many people trying to sell you fake "alternatives" to vaccines without any scientific proof to support. These include supplements, herbs, essential oils, homeopathic remedies, chiropractic adjustments and cabbage. These may be some of the same people trying to spread misinformation about vaccines. Therefore, whenever someone is denigrating a recommended vaccine that relies on many scientific studies, also check what he can sell.
None of these other "options" are worth the chickenpox vaccine. Crazy parties and lollipops may not even be able to infect your child. After all, a virus, luckily, may not survive in the mail, and forcing children to interact closely enough to pass on to each other is not only a little strange, but can be quite unpredictable.
It is true that chickenpox is not usually as dangerous as measles, hepatitis B, influenza or many other diseases against which you should be vaccinated. However, chickenpox is not exactly a walk in the park and can have serious consequences for you or for someone else more vulnerable than you infect. Chickenpox can be called chicken not because you turn into chicken, but because it looks like the wimpier "parent" of smallpox. But that does not mean you should never underestimate chicken pox.
