Double dose prevented illness 98.3 percent of the time, study shows
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from:msnbc.comTwo doses of chicken pox vaccine better than one
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...and 10 vaccines are better yet.
Get enough vaccines and you don't have to worry about chicken pox.
Big pharma pushes drugs harder than any drug dealer ever could, they have the FDA as a pimp.
10,000 chicken pox vaccines is even better than 2 yet just as safe.
Better make that appointment with your doctor then.
1 less to post crap on this board.
Jest!
After the CDC's and FDA's lack of reporting the locations of the last alfalfa sprout salmonella scare, I'm supposed to believe a "study" of less than 200 kids they support? These two organizations have very questionable watchdog track records.
I am 45. I've had measles, mumps, chicken pox, 5th's disease, and mono. I see nothing wrong with kids having chicken pox. It prevents kids from having them as an adult, when it can really be nasty. Ask someone who has had a bad case of shingles and I bet they'll agree with you. I'm all for routine childhood vaccinations. However, chickenpox isn't one of them.
Female Vet 43 -- It wasn't until I was pregnant with my first child that I learned I had a natural immunity to measles, mumps, and rubella. My mom always wondered why, when I played with kids who had those, I never got them. Now I know. But, you're much younger than I am - why weren't you inoculated for them - the vaccines have been available and licensed for worldwide use since the 1970s. All three diseases can lead to devastating disabilities and death.
I had my son inoculated for chicken pox in the 1990s, and I'm not sure that I did the right thing. He might have had a natural immunity like my husband has. The "jury" is still out about chicken pox giving immunity to shingles. My mother-in-law had CP as a child and contracted a severe case of shingles as an adult. She developed severe postherpetic neuralgia (caused by the same varicella zostra virus that causes CP) and has been on heavy-duty painkillers for over 10 years.
Chicken pox normally isn't as bad as the other childhood diseases unless you get a bad case of it. One of my cousins suffered through a bad one as a child of the 1950s - mouth, eyelids, throat, ears, genitals.
From what I've read, getting CP as an adult is typically more severe than getting it in childhood. So, I agree with you on that point. So, we all have to do our homework from the many reliable medical sources that are available to us on the Internet to make our own decisions for ourselves and our children.
I hope that parents who've been spooked about MMR's alleged link to autism read that the study was debunked last week and the author was stripped of his medical license for lying. Here are only 2 articles. There are more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/05/vaccine-autism-study-report_n_805036.html
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/05/news/la-heb-andrew-wakefield-01052011
Chicken pox "research" may well follow the same road.
Caveat emptor.
Actually, there are many of those parents who were spooked by his study that believe that "they" are out to get the author because he was telling the truth. "They" cannot have him telling the truth and causing fewer vaccines to be sold.
Actually, I think it made these people believe it more strongly.
I had measles and mumps before I was six. I had mumps at 3. I gave them to my sister who was 2 and my dad. I had chicken pox in 2nd grade and gave it to my sister and brother at the same time. I had 5th's disease when I was 35, when my daughter caught them at preschool. She had a mild case and mine was very bad. It went through my whole family and my extended family in 5 days.
In the old days of vaccinations, you were only given one shot for measles, mumps, rubella, polio, etc... It is only in later years that they gave you boosters. I was one of the last year of babies to get a smallpox shot.