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Originally posted by AlomaRa
reply to post by MapMistress
When my son was 4 he caught it and had about 5 spots and a low fever. He played all day, anyway. He was better the next day.
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CDC Vaccine Price List
"As a pediatric nurse I gave hundreds of varicella (or chicken pox) vaccines. In the Norfolk Va area the going rate is about $80.00 to $120.00"
Yahoo Q&A Cost of Chickenpox vaccine
"It doesn't do me any good. I am losing money on [them]," he said. The chicken pox vaccine runs about $115, but insurers only cover between $68 to $83 of that.
High Vaccine Costs Means Fewer Doctors Are Offering Shots
Before the development of a vaccine, about 100 people died every year in the United States from chickenpox.
Chickenpox Stats from Immunize.org
Duval County leads Florida in resurgent whooping cough
February 20, 2011
From a high of about 250,000 cases annually in the 1940s, when the first whooping cough vaccine was introduced, the number of reported cases plunged to just over 1,000 a year three decades later. Since then, however, it has been creeping upward, hitting 17,000 in 2009.
Duval County leads Florida in resurgent whooping cough
October 20, 2011
It's generally assumed that the measles vaccine, when given in a two-dose schedule in early childhood, should protect against measles infection about 99 per cent of the time. So the discovery that 52 of the 98 teens who caught measles were fully vaccinated came as a shock to the researchers who conducted the investigation.
from Canadian Press Meas les cases among vaccinated Quebec kids raises questions about vaccine schedule
October 21, 2011
"Measles is like the flu on crack," she says. The Victoria University student, 19, should know-she was the first person in Wellington to become infected during the current outbreak.
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Miss Lyme was born in Brisbane during the 1991 measles epidemic, and so was vaccinated about six months earlier than usual.
Wellington Measles Sufferer Tells All
September 18, 2011
..according to Wallace. Of those, 86 percent were either unvaccinated or had no documents confirming their vaccination status, he said...
ABC News Measles on the Rise in the U.S.
May 5, 2011
The Bucks County Health Department has identified three probable cases of measles that could have exposed other persons while infectious.
All three people were at least partially vaccinated.
T hree measles cases reported in Council Rock
"The vaccine prevents between 70 and 80 percent of bacterial meningitis," Palmer said. "There are some strains that are not controlled by the vaccine."
Unlike the vaccine, the antibiotic covers every strain, Palmer said.
Meningitis Death in Previously Vaccinated Student