[3AngelaD]

Be sure to have your kids checked for TB once a year, too. In that kind of environment, it would be surprising if they WEREN'T exposed to TB and a number of other Third World ailments. We are importing poverty, and povery is bringing with it problems that are spreading to the population at large.

[MeanWestTexan]

A new strain of chicken pox (from some turd world country) is circulating.

Past infection and/or the innoculation for the Western strain should make this case very mild.

It's all over the country. (I live in Midland, TX and it's here, too.)

[Vicomte13]

It's not true that if you've had the chicken pox before you can't get them again.
USUALLY you don't, but sometimes you don't develop an immunity.
The chicken pox virus never leaves you. It retreats into the nerves, and emerges again later in adulthood as shingles. A few unfortunates get shingles, and then have them develop into full-blown chicken pox. My mother had it happen to her, and I have had it happen to me. Having chicken pox AND the shingles at the same time sucks.

[Captainpaintball]

Maybe they'll bat an eye if someone can convince them that they might be silently killing our kids

They realy don't give a crap about your kids. They care about your money, and your vote. If you can somehow tie in the fact that your kids and your money and your votes are connected, they may listen.

But for every Conservtive parent like you smart enough to realize the cause, the effect, and the solution to your problem, there are ten liberal parents who would rather catch a disease and die than be "un-pc."

BTW: An"epidemic" of repeat chicken pox cases does neither sounds common, nor trivial.

[johnny7]

One word pal... MOVE!

[Zeroisanumber]

It's possible, but improbable that your daughter picked something exotic up from the illegals' kids. A second dose of Chicken Pox is rare, but it happens, usually it's not as bad the second time around.

[nmh]

As I started to read this .... ILLEGALS who do not have HEALTH SCREENING crossed my mind ... . NO kidding!

"I hope this thread finds the eyes of someone who may be in a position to underscore, in a public forum, this subject as a potentially catastrophic effect of illegal immigration. My states government doesn't care about the cost of supporting illegals. They don't care about the increased crime rate at the hands of illegals. They don't care if we're hit and killed by unlicensed driver illegals. They don't care that illegals are taking jobs that used to pay decent money for peanuts. They don't care that most of that money is going back "home". They just plain are putting the welfare of these ILLEGAL immigrants before the welfare of the people who are paying their salary. "

I hear ya and agree with you.

DEPORT EM - the WHOLE family - don't split them up and present some sob story about the kids were born here but I'll illegal ... should have thought about that before you ALLOWED yourself to get pregnant.

Fine the hell out of employers that hire them. Then there should be NO REASON for them to be here. What's going on is wrong.

You are right. They are taking jobs Americans do and want to continue doing. Every human being is equal and valued - no question about that HOWEVER we are not all EQUAL in ABILITY. Jobs that require LESS ability should go to LEGAL citizens FIRST. Instead ILLEGALS are taking these positions and LEGAL citizens are being squeezed out of their livelihoods.

[JenB]

When I was four, my two year old sister and I had chicken pox. Memorable because my mom was in the hospital having our little sister at the time.

When I was ten, there were six of us and we all got the chicken pox, including the two of us who had presumably already had it.

Apparently, sometimes it just happens. We didn't catch it from illegal aliens, it was just going around.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

I share your concerns ... but you and I must be made to understand that we are haters and socially insensitive/unacceptable. Don't we realize that we have done right and worked hard all of our lives so that we can provide a healthy, wealthy and loving environment for every poor, uneducated person who can get their feet on our soil? < /rant >

I hope that your kiddo feels better real soon. I got chicken pox when I was in my late twenties and have never been sicker and more miserable.

[Kirkwood]

"In the past, if you had the chicken pox, you didn't get them again, period. "

That is not quite true. Essentially once you get the virus for chicken pox, you have it forever. There is no immunity per se, but rather the pox virus happily lives forever snuggled up in nerve ganglia in certain parts of the body. Herpes is the same kind of parvovirus as chicken pox and you can have outbreaks. Likewise,having herpes once doesn't mean you won't have them any longer or that they can't come back. Something can come along and trigger these viruses to wake up and reactivate.

[poobear]

While I'll sympathize with your concerns,I had two forms of cpx as a child. The first one is so mild that by the time you have the second it is nothing.

On the other hand, my stepson who had never had either was so sick we nearly lost him. His body literally shed pounds of dry flesh from the fevers and pox. Vaccines are good. I have an eleven year old daughter who hasn't had her boosters yet because each time I have her enauculated she becomes ill.

Third world chicken pox? What next pray tell?

[evad]

..many of the kids have already had the chicken pox, including my daughter.

Quite rare.

Having had chicken pox and later shingles I can appreciate your concern.

Very, very painful.

[JB in Whitefish]

"Over the last five years or so, my town has been invaded by illegals from Brazil, Guatemala, and Equador. You can't drive down main street without counting 50 of them. They gather by the hundreds on Sundays in our town parks to the point where the parks are unusable by the people who pay the taxes to maintain them."

I believe you've NAILED it.


Now, I'm NOT trying to "alarm" you, but it's believed that a "low grade" infection of chicken pox which is NOT fully fought off by the body CAN result in shingles in later life....and they are VERY painful. So, don't hold back on the meds.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"A small epidemic. Now before evoking judgment for posting such a boring thread, here's the punch line. Most of the cases are repeats."

How many received flu shots or other "immunizations" before the repeat outbreaks?

[Kimmers]

I am a middle school nurse (IN) and we are seeing chicken pox here. The state has found that kids that were vaccinated for Chicken Pox between 1997-99 are getting a weakened form of chicken pox. I guess the vaccine was not of the correct strength.

Sorry for all you have to go through....

[cyclotic]

Another reason to homeschool

[wolfcreek]

Is it chicken pox or mumps that you don't want to get as an adult? I've heard mumps can make a adult sterile.

[hardworking]

The Center for Disease Control raised the alarm several years ago about new strains being brought in.

An additional alert: UK hospitals have a very serious problem with infections because Muslim workers, and visitors to patients, refuse to wash their hands using the anti-bacterial soap that is routinely placed in the restrooms. They will not use the soap because it contains alcohol and they won't let it touch their skin. Be careful if you live in an area where you or your family are exposed to Muslims (for more reasons than one, obviously).

[randita]

One of my sons had chicken pox twice. The first was a very mild case, the second was full blown.

[HungarianGypsy]

I knew a boy who had chicken pox about three or four times. A lot of times it depends on the severity. I had chicken pox at the age of two. When I was exposed again at seven, I did not get it, but I did get a nice roselli (or whatever it's called) rash.

Four of my children got it right after Christmas, 2005. The one year old got a light case. You couldn't even tell he had it. A few months later he had little bumps showing up all over. It wasn't until he was done with it again, that we realized it was his second case of chicken pox.