I have a son who had the chicken pox vaccine as a toddler (about 2 yrs old). He got chicken pox at age 6 or 7. I had the vaccine as a child also. His chicken pox virus gave me shingles. Sometimes vaccines just don’t work.
“I had the [chicken pox] vaccine as a child.”
How old are you? Did you grow up in Japan? That vaccine wasn’t widely used in the U.S. until the mid-1990’s. Mrs riverdawg and princess riverdawg were vaccinated in 1994 because members of many military families were in the early clinical trials.
One of the consequences of increased varicella vaccination of children is increased shingles among adults. I’ve had shingles, and it isn’t pleasant. But the annual death rate among children from chicken pox in the U.S. has been reduced by about 90% since the vaccine was introduced.
I’m not convinced about the merit of all available vaccines. I don’t get a flu vaccine (and I haven’t had the flu in 23 years), and we are not yet convinced that the HPV vaccine makes sense for princess riverdawg.