Article: Fully vaxed kids can still get chicken pox during outbreak

[Lilcrunchie]

What everyone here has long known. Sorry if this has already been posted...I searched back a week or so but didn't see it.

Not much of a difference in those receiving 1 vs. 2 doses of vax during outbreak.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/707373

from the above:
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Aug 12 - During an outbreak of varicella in an elementary school in Arkansas, students who were vaccinated once or twice still came down with the illness, though their symptoms were mild.

Furthermore, vaccine effectiveness was no better among those who received two inoculations prior to the outbreak than those who received only one, researchers report in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal for August.



eta: let me know if the link doesn't show up. I can't remember if you need to login to read Medscape articles or not.

[MyBoysBlue]

Yup you need to log in.

[Lilcrunchie]

Okay, here's the text (same text up as Medscape) from a different site:

(hopefully this will work without needing to log in)

http://www.thejobcure.com/reuters_ar...12epid005.html

Thanks for letting me know the Medscape link requires a log in.

[Fyrestorm]

ummmmm...isn't it usually mild?

[MyBoysBlue]

My unvaxed DS2 got CP a pretty mild case. Not in numbers of spots but in the way it affected him. He was just a bit sick and didn't itch too badly.

The funny thing is that my DS1 got the CP vax at 18 months, DH took him and I had refused it at the 15 month appt but DH didn't know what Varicilla was and I didn't think to tell him to decline as I had already done so. DS 1 was 7 when DS2 got CP and he didn't get it even though he only had the one dose of the CP vax. I was really hoping that the vax had worn off. But I am also wondering if he was one of those who were infected but didn't show symptoms.

Maybe it will go around DS's school and we will get another chance to test the theory.