Chicken pox outbreak

[blessed]

On a pediatrician's forum there's an active thread talking about the CP outbreak that the docs are all seeing. This seems to be almost exclusively occurring in the vaxed kids, although these docs only SEE vaxed kids (they fire families who don't vax), so for whatever that's worth.

One doc made the comment about having personally seen 20 cases in the past week - all vaxed kids so all the cases were mild, thank goodness.

Has anyone ever seen CP in an otherwise healthy kid that wasn't mild?

[mammom]

Now, are all these kids who are getting chicken pox despite having the vaccine, are they going to have immunity for life as they would have had without the vaccine? Or do "they" not know that yet?

I just exposed ds to a little guy who has the pox. His mom was floored when his older brother (5yo) came down with the pox a few weeks ago. She was also very surprised at how rough it was on him! She said it wasn't mild at all (they had two pretty rough nights) and she said it was the first time she has questioned not vaxxing - she was a little freaked out about it. BUT, she knows it's the right thing! She doesn't know where her 5yo picked it up - it's good to know it's still out there in the wild!

[LongIsland]

Originally Posted by blessed

One doc made the comment about having personally seen 20 cases in the past week - all vaxed kids so all the cases were mild, thank goodness.

I think I know which forum you're talking about . . . this wouldn't happen to be Gary from Long Island would it?

[rmzbm]

ONE Dr. said he saw TWENTY cases in a WEEK?? Does that strike anyone else as a bit odd??

[alegna]

I'm not shocked at the 20. I would bet that drs offices around here have seen numbers like that recently. It's everywhere right now.

-Angela

[aira]

I'd like to know just how one can know that a case is "wild" CP and not picked up by another kid shedding the frankenvirus??

I mean, even if you say the other case is unvaxed, how do we know that that kid didn't get it from someone else's shedding?

Is it "certified organically grown" CP?!

[blessed]

Originally Posted by LongIsland

I think I know which forum you're talking about . . . this wouldn't happen to be Gary from Long Island would it?

No, it was some doc from Illinois.

[rareimer]

not to mention that if you were to use the phrase "chicken pox outbreak" before the vaccine was being recommended...you would have been laughed at.

[MyLittleWonders]

We just had an "outbreak" out here last month that made the news ... and of course, the party line was to make sure your dc was vaccinated and go get the CP vax if you haven't already. I emailed the new stations and asked them if they ever thought to look at the possibility that all these school-aged children who were coming down with CP weren't infact, already vaxed. Never heard back ...

[CaliMommie]

Hmmm, wish I knew where to find free-range chicken pox around here.

[JesseMomme]

Originally Posted by CaliMommie

Hmmm, wish I knew where to find free-range chicken pox around here.

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

Did ya see the one from the Texas doc moaning about how the flu was hitting all the kids that they had diligently vaccinated (including his daughter) and when they sent off samples they all came back same strain as per vaccine?

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

Oh and the follow up from another practice who said that (like the op) there had been no break throughs with flumist, but for the last two years, "multiple breakthroughs" with the injectable, so they had gone off list and were recommending flumist.....

[Momtezuma Tuatara]

Ah yes

We currently are having an outbreak of chickenpox (among
vaccinated children no less) 68 cases since last week of Feb.

[christymama]

My kids dont have this vax either and I have been waiting for them to get the pox.. One little girl at school got it ( she had the vax) and my kids did not get it

[CaliMommie]

My friend's youngest DD was diagnosed with Chicken Pox yesterday~ and she is fully vaxed! My friend is so surprised and thinks the dr must be wrong b/c she is vaxed. I wonder if she will think twice about vax now that her vaxed daughter has CP and my vax-free kids don't.

[mammom]

I just exposed my ds to CP on Friday and my neighbor said, "Stay away from us!" (in a friendly way) and I said, "Oh, don't worry - your girls already had their vaccines for it." She said, "Well, the vaccine doesn't always work." So I said, "So why did you inject poison into your babies if it doesn't work?!" All she said was, "I know, I know."

It's insane to me that anyone would inject this crap into their babies KNOWING it DOESN'T WORK!! Whatever.

[Pariah]

Sounds like when my sister and cousin got CP...they're vaxed, and got it from vaxed classmates (imagine that!). Luckily after that, and all I've been telling my mom about this topic as I learn, she said she'll never get my sister or herself vaxed again (better late then never!).

[aniT]

Man the only deadly disease that is on the news here is the Norwalk virus (however that is spelled.) I guess the big deal is that it is breaking out in rest homes.

Anyway, I want chicken pox!! Not only do I want to expose my vaxed girls to it and hope they get it anyway, it is also about time I was re-exposed since the last time I was exposed (to my knowledge) was in '93. I am not sure about my younger dd however. What would you say should be the youngest age to expose a child to CP? She is two.

[crittersmom]

My neighbor's DS broke out in a rash last week and the DR wasn't sure if it was chicken pox so she called me to warn me just in case.I actually was pretty excited at the idea that I wouldn't have to worry about my DS's.The chicken pox vaccine was the one that really helps me get my point across when I've told people about looking up the pros and cons of vaccines.