Posted on 11/21/2018 2:19:39 PM PST by SMGFan
A North Carolina school where a high concentration of families claim religious exemption from vaccines is facing the state’s worst chickenpox outbreak in more than 20 years.
The chickenpox outbreak has affected 36 students at Asheville Waldorf School, health officials with Buncombe County said. The outbreak ranks as North Carolina’s largest since a chickenpox vaccine became available more than 20 years ago, the Asheville Citizen Times reports.
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Chickenpox??? My god, the horror...
Don’t have to get a vaccination, but you also don’t get to hold up the rest of the class. Catch up, or take second grade over.
I’m sure more people die from the vaccine than the disease.
I’m surprised it isn’t Charlotte Mecklenburg County or Durham. But Asheville would have been a good guess, too.
The question here is how many vaccinated kids contracted this strain of chickenpox?
We will surely never know, as Federal law shields vaccine makers from ALL liability.
Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.
Don’t remember if it was measles or chickenpox, but in my day, when one kid got it, the moms brought the other kids to play so they would get it too. The idea was to get it over with, since you were going to get it anyway.
Hopefully the few did get vaccinated. Years from now those that got chicken pox will be visited by shingles.
Guess what. There will be very little Chickenpox around there next year.
An excellent question that should be the first one asked by a reporter. This, and other agenda articles like it, never give that statistic despite it being readily available.
Yes, indeed, one of the horrors of chickenpox is shingles in your elder years, another horror is contracting the disease while you are pregnant and giving birth to an autistic child (real autism) or, another horror, testicular atrophy with the inability to father children. If an adult who is not immune is exposed to a child with chickenpox, the resulting illness can be VERY serious and possibly fatal. So yes, I agree with you, it is horrible not to vaccinate your child against chickenpox. I do agree, however, that the way we routinely vaccinate children now is not ideal, and if I were a young parent, I would insist that my child’s vaccinations be spaced out much more than they are, the way it used to be done.
Of the 28 children enrolled in kindergarten at the school during the 2017-2018 school year,
about 19 claimed religious exemption from vaccines
— a higher rate of exemptions than all but two other schools in the state, according to the Citizen Times.
"When we see high numbers of unimmunized children and adults, we know that an illness like chickenpox can spread easily throughout the community
— into our playgrounds, grocery stores, and sports teams.”
Despite evidence pointing to immunizations as an effective way to protect against diseases like chickenpox,
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this year
that the percentage of children with no vaccinations under the age of 2 quadrupled since 2001.(Emphasis Mine)
Anti-vaccination sentiments have taken off among some communities in recent years,
spurred by the myth that vaccines are linked to increased rates of autism
that dates back to a now-debunked and retracted 1998 study."
The CDC also found an overall increase in exemption rates for kindergarten-age children,
with Oregon holding the highest median rate.
For some people it IS a horror:
Serious complications from chickenpox include
bacterial infections of the skin and soft tissues in children including Group A streptococcal infections
pneumonia
infection or inflammation of the brain (encephalitis, cerebellar ataxia)
bleeding problems
blood stream infections (sepsis)
dehydration
Some people with serious complications from chickenpox can become so sick that they need to be hospitalized. Chickenpox can also cause death.
Some deaths from chickenpox continue to occur in healthy, unvaccinated children and adults. Many of the healthy adults who died from chickenpox contracted the disease from their unvaccinated children.
Everyone I know my age had chicken pox and 99.999% survived it.
But they don’t know how long the vaccine lasts. And it is much worse as an adult than a child.
It’s pretty obvious this piece is an exercise in propaganda. As you note, the most relevant data to the story is not only not in the lead paragraph, it is not even mentioned in the article at all.
We have no way to draw any firm conclusions, yet the article all but demands that we draw one. Propaganda - fake news.
Has there been a study on how long the vaccine lasts?
For most kids chicken pox was a week off from school, some itching, and a couple of scars. And since it is so contagious (because it is contagious before you feel sick) nearly everyone got it as a kid. But it can and does kill adults who contract it.
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