[HamiltonJay]

The medical importance of chickenpox should be stressed. There are approximately 250 deaths per year in the United States from this infection. For the normal child, chickenpox-associated mortality is less than 2 per 100,000 cases.

Immunocompromised children, particularly those with leukemia, have more numerous lesions, often with a hemorrhagic base. Healing takes nearly three times longer in this population. [39] These children are at greater risk for visceral complications, which occur in 30 to 50% of cases and can be fatal in as many as 15% of cases.

Hogwash to you sir, 40 deaths per year from Chicken Pox, amoung childred! The rest are adults, of those 40 the vast majority have auto immune or other sever conditions when they contracted the virus.

When 40 is places over the Millions of cases per year of children infected with the chicken pox, you get a statistically irrelevant number. However 13 (deaths with links to the vaccine) over the total innoculations, you still get a statistically small number. But it is larger than the death rate for those contracting the disease naturally. This Vaccine is nothing more than a convience shot, for parents who would rather not have to miss a week of work, nothing more.

[cajungirl]

Ham, did you read all of the above posts. No one gets a vaccine so they won't have to take off work. Have you lost your mind? Parents get kids vaccines to protect their current health and future health. Read what some of the people above say about their pox,,it didn't kill them but boy was it terrible. Why not spare a kids that? And what kind of woman do you think most mothers are. The non vaccinators seem kind of loopy to me.