Chicken Pox Parties vs. Vaccination

ysabella said:
I have another general question on immunity, and I'm not sure where to look for it. I was trying to explain to someone how herd immunity protects and they said a vaccinated kid was just as likely to pass a disease along - be a carrier - as a non-vaccinated kid.

Isn't that wrong? But in searching, it's not something I'm finding easily - what the difference is between vaccinated and not vaccinated, when it comes to carrying a disease.
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I'm not sure what you read, but the following is one possible interpretation. Because such a high percentage of children are vaccinated and the vaccine will not take in all of them, there are actually more vaccinated children that will catch the disease than non-vaccinated children. If 95% of children are vaccinated, and in 20% of those, the vaccine doesn't take, then, out of 100 children, there will be 5 unvaccinated children and 19 vaccinated children who may catch and spread the disease.
 
Just because you get chicken pox it does not necessarily mean that you will ever get shingles in your life.

Now, I was born at a time when these vaccines did not exist, so I have had chicken pox, mumps on both sides at once, measles and rubella. I had chicken pox for about 2 weeks and got over it after that. I have only ever had chicken pox once and have never had shingles at all and do not expect to anytime soon.

It could be that the more anxiety you have over getting shingles, possibly the more likely you will be to develop it!
 
Can these people be charged with child abuse? Not to mention Grievous bodily harm when their children pass it on to other people?

That is what it should be for anyone who does not immunise their children.
 
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