Nearly everyone in the United States is vaccinated. The article is about declining vaccination rates in Europe and in various other countries around the world, not in the US.
Huh? We've gone from millions of people to tens of people infected in the US yearly, and from hundreds of deaths to typically zero deaths. How is that not a change?
It is not much of a change at all in the number of deaths,
relatively speaking to the number who get chicken pox.
Not to mention that the rates of infection were dropping precipitously throughout the 20th century well before a vaccine became available in the early 60s, as the bell curve of the century will show you (someone above posted it).
While a bout with measles wasn't enjoyable, it is better than short term immunity, and is a relatively mild illness for most people (there will always be exceptions to anything, including vaccine reactions).
How do you think the almost completely vaccinated population today (in the US, where most, but not all of us, live) keeps getting measles? Bingo. They don't get sick from healthy people who are not sick with the disease, unlike what the media pretends, as if every person without any particular vaccination is a walking time bomb infecting everyone within breathing range. It simply is a false narrative. Someone has to
have the disease for others to get it. Sometimes the person has been infected by a foreign person bringing it in, but sometimes from the vaccine itself, which is weakened, but not dead. He can still spread it, which is why recipients are warned not to be around immuno-compromised people.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/04/measles-outbreak-traced-fully-vaccinated-patient-first-time
[Herpes zoster after varicella-zoster vaccination]. - PubMed - NCBI
(And it is not only chicken pox, interestingly)
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/201...cine-does-not-stop-spread-disease-lab-animals
Immunized People Getting Whooping Cough
My entire generation should be dead if you listen to the media. Most of our early 20th century parents (and grandparents) had zero vaccines, or maybe one or two, later in life. Yet, amazingly, most of us are still here.
Heck, I never even had the chicken pox. Yet when my kids got the chicken pox from some newly vaccinated kid (yeah, sure.."only happens to 5 percent" of kids, but since it is a live vaccine, it does happen and did happen to some home schooled kids we knew because they told everyone they just got it before being around a group), my doctor insisted on a titer, since I was an older parent who had never had the chicken pox at all.
I was completely immune because I was exposed in childhood even though neither I nor my siblings ever had chicken pox. Doctor informed me that nearly everyone in our (he was close in age) generation is completely immune from exposure. Well, we were able to take care of our kids just fine. Now they are immune for life too, thanks to the kid who got the vaccine and has the 5-10 year immunity.
Interestingly, the UK views this whole issue differently, in terms of cost-effectiveness for the population:
It is a live viral vaccine – and about 5 per cent of children who are vaccinated develop a mild chickenpox rash after vaccination and fever can occur, especially with the vaccine that is combined with MMR, MMRV.
All vaccines in the UK are assessed for their cost-effectiveness to ensure the health budget spent on services which provide the greatest health benefit for the population as a whole.
Some studies have indicated that the
risk of shingles in older adults is reduced by exposure to children who have chickenpox during the adult’s life. This results in a boost of immune responses against the virus and delays the waning of immunity which would eventually lead to shingles.
Everything you need to know about chickenpox and why more countries don’t use the vaccine | University of Oxford