Chickenpox: scientists call for UK vaccine rollout

[Still Waters]

It is time to end chickenpox parties in the UK. That is the uncompromising view of a group of scientists who believe an immunisation programme should be launched to bring an end to social events where young children are deliberately cross-infected with the chickenpox virus.

Normally a mild illness, chickenpox produces occasional severe side-effects, such as bacterial skin infections, pneumonia and encephalitis. As a result, hundreds of children are badly affected every year in the UK, with around 20 deaths.

The US and several European nations, have launched national vaccination programmes to eliminate the disease, while the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) was poised last year to consider whether the UK should follow suit – though the arrival of Covid-19 curtailed this debate. Now a key committee member, paediatrician Professor Adam Finn of Bristol University, is pressing for these discussions to be resumed.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/02/the-chickenpox-party-is-over-as-scientists-call-for-uk-vaccine-rollout

[Dreamer screamer]

I have headaches, I suppose a vaccine will be created to stop headaches now?  

[OpenMindedSceptic]

No. For crying out loud, no.

Living isn't hiding from every shadow, it's about getting our and about and living with risk. 

Stop this craziness now.

[+ouija ouija]

They're just jumping on the covid 'bandwagon'. They think that as so many people have been accepting of the covid jab, those same people will take any vaccine, for anything . . . . . perhaps that will be true.