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Kentucky teen who sued over school ban for refusing chickenpox vaccination now has chickenpox
NBC News ^ | 05/08/2019 | David K. Li

Posted on 05/08/2019 1:33:01 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd

A northern Kentucky teenager banned from school for refusing the chickenpox vaccination due to his religious beliefs has come down with the childhood malady, his attorney said Wednesday.

Jerome Kunkel, a student at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Assumption Academy, first started showing chickenpox symptoms last week and hopes to have recovered by next week, a lawyer for the 18-year-old told NBC News.

Kunkel and his family have no regrets about their decision to not be vaccinated.

"These are deeply held religious beliefs, they're sincerely held beliefs," family attorney Christopher Wiest said. "From their perspective, they always recognized they were running the risk of getting it, and they were OK with it."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antivaxxer; chickenpox
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To: Responsibility2nd

Kismet Hardy, kismet.


81 posted on 05/08/2019 8:49:39 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Yeah - and now he has better immunity in older life than those who get the vax....horror of horrors he got what a very huge boatload of us got as kids...via the “chicken pox parties” Moms would do to get it over with.


82 posted on 05/09/2019 3:25:27 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: dljordan

I was told I had the measles, and can barely remember being sick with something before I started school, so that would have been about 1959 or so.......................


83 posted on 05/09/2019 6:01:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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