Anti-vaccination stronghold hit with worst chickenpox outbreak in decades
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Re: Anti-vaccination stronghold hit with worst chickenpox outbreak in decades
#2The article is pay-walled. Here is an alternative:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46267038
Re: Anti-vaccination stronghold hit with worst chickenpox outbreak in decades
#3> "We find that our parents are highly motivated to choose exactly what they want for their children. We, as a school, do not discriminate based on a child's medical history or medical condition."
Being French, this seems really mindless to me. If schools truly care about the children they are educating, they should require vaccination and explain to the parents why not vaccinating their kids is dangerous for them and the others. School is a place to learn and acquire knowledge, it shouldn't be complacent with anti-scientific belief.
Re: Anti-vaccination stronghold hit with worst chickenpox outbreak in decades
#4I couldn't find if the outbreak is also affecting people who were previously vaccinated. This would give details on how effective vaccination really was, i.e., if vaccination alone was sufficient to prevent some people from getting infected and how many of the unvaccinated was infected.
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#5It's sad that people look at this and just say "silly anti-vaxxers". The proper response is "How can parents get with endangering the lives of their own and their neighbor's children?"
Re: Anti-vaccination stronghold hit with worst chickenpox outbreak in decades
#6Glad to see natural selection working as intended.
Re: Anti-vaccination stronghold hit with worst chickenpox outbreak in decades
#7A little info for any carers of children with chickenpox. The scabs can allow skin bacteria to infect the child. This may present as a swelling around the scab. It can become life threatening as it can quickly progress to septicaemia (sepsis) in a matter of hours.
It's rare enough that Accident & Emergency may not recognise it as they'll only have a handful of cases in a year in a middle-sized city. There could be a delay in giving that huge cocktail of antibiotics that are going to be required.
The high-dendency unit is a scary place.
Re: Anti-vaccination stronghold hit with worst chickenpox outbreak in decades
#8Theres a chickenpox vaccine? It's not part of the childhood vaccination program here in the UK.
Re: Anti-vaccination stronghold hit with worst chickenpox outbreak in decades
#9I couldn't find if the outbreak is also affecting people who were previously vaccinated. This would give details on how effective vaccination really was, i.e., if vaccination alone was sufficient to prevent some people from getting infected and how many of the unvaccinated was infected.
I don't think that's the point of the article. For efficacy you'd need a properly controlled trial comparing vaccinations, not deliberatly failing to vaccinate and thus endangering children.
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#10Love seeing all the hate here. Pretty sure all of us grew-up in the era where we contracted chicken-pox. We took an oatmeal bath, spent a few days at home, and all was well again.