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Originally Posted by monster
but I'm still on the fence about vaccinations against diseases which are non-fatal to the majority.
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Such as?
Take the Chickenpox. Kids get it and it is most always self limiting. When are you contagious from the Chickenpox?
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Chickenpox is highly infectious and spreads from person to person by direct contact or through the air from an infected person’s coughing or sneezing or from aerosolization of virus from skin lesions. A person with chickenpox is contagious 1-2 days before the rash appears and until all blisters have formed scabs. It takes from 10-21 days after exposure for someone to develop chickenpox.
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http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/aci...nza1-fiore.pdf
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Before licensure of the varicella vaccine in 1995, each year there were about four million cases of varicella, 13,500 hospitalizations and 150 deaths.
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http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/news/new...006/200607.htm
But have that same asymptomatic child around a pregnant woman or an adult who has never had it and the consequences can be devestating.
How many people die from the flu every year?
As of June 2007, there have been pediatric deaths from 2006-2007.
19,000 people died each year from Influenza between 1976 and 1990. Since 1990 that number has increased to 36,000 deaths
per year.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pin...nloads/flu.pdf