Theres a chickenpox vaccine? It's not part of the childhood vaccination program here in the UK.
It has been for maybe around fifteen years in the US. It's a relatively new thing that it's in common use.
Anti-vaccination stronghold hit with worst chickenpox outbreak in decades
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#12Love 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.
Except for those children that died of it, which you probably didn't see. The plural of anecdote is not data.
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#13A 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…
+1. My daughter was being treated for Leukemia when she developed Sepsis and hovered near death for a week in the ICU of Boston Children's Hospital, generally considered the best pediatric unit in the world. It was touch and go the whole time, even with the best possible care. For the sake of your children, and children with suppressed immune systems, please vaccinate your children.
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#14Theres a chickenpox vaccine? It's not part of the childhood vaccination program here in the UK.
Interesting - it's part of the routine childhood schedule in the US but not in the UK. From NHS: "Why isn't the chickenpox vaccination part of the routine childhood immunisation schedule?"
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/chickenpox-vaccin...
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#15Glad to see natural selection working as intended.
eh, it's usually not the anti vaxers, but their children, who suffer. so it's not some cosmic justice, just a sad case of parental neglect
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#16Love 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.
My sister was sick enough from chicken pox that her doctor told her to take aspirin. She died about a week later from Reye's Syndrome. So no, we were all not well again.
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#17It'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?"
or even further, "what is making these parents make the choice to not vaccinate children?". Is it education? is it distrust of the system?
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#19A 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…
That has essentially nothing to do with chickenpox.
Suppose the kid skins his knee. 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.
Yep. Same with mosquito bites, paper cuts, and slivers. You could DIE!!!!! Well, you could. You really could.
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#20Theres a chickenpox vaccine? It's not part of the childhood vaccination program here in the UK.
I wonder if part of the reason why chickenpox vaccine is not part of the childhood vaccination program in the UK is because in the US we have for profit pharmaceutical companies who are not liable for ANY injury they cause who are paying a lot of money to lobbyists.
https://ethics.harvard.edu/news/institutional-corruption-and...