Have you or anyone you know gotten it years after being immunized? My son is 11 and has been around a kid who had it recently.
2007-07-02 01:40:14 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
ABSOLUTELY! It can happen, It happened to my brother, and a school friend and an adult coworker of mine . See the doctor.
2007-07-02 01:47:43 · answer #1 · answered by Lilly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can get chicken pox after receiving varicella vaccine, but it is almost always a mild case.
More than 95% of children between 12 months and 12 years of age develop an immune response after a single dose. To protect the remaining, the CDC and the Immunization Advisory Committee have recently recommended a second dose of vaccine for all children. Even then there will be an occasional child who fails to develop immunity.
The effects of the vaccine were studied for over 10 years in Japan before it was licensed in the USA. However, that was at a time when there was still much "wild" or natural chicken pox going around that there could have been a booster effect from exposure to the natural virus. Conditions change. The chicken pox vaccine was very thoroughly studied prior to licensure.
2007-07-02 02:24:04 · answer #2 · answered by greydoc6 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sorry to let you know but to my knowledge you can still catch chicken pox if youve been immunized - getting immunized gives you about.. a 75% of not getting chicken pox? Dont quote me I could be wrong - We've been learning about infectious diseases in our Biology classes.
2007-07-02 01:45:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Immunization reduces the risk of getting a disease and is suppose to minimize the illness if you do get it. Also, in some instances the vaccine may not take for various reasons.
2007-07-02 04:04:14 · answer #4 · answered by kyghostchaser2006 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes there was a bunch of them around here the begining of the summer..they wanted the kids to now have a second vaccine..they are finding out now that the 1 shot is not enough....this is what happenes when they do not do enough long term research on a shot before they start giving them to our children
2007-07-02 01:48:17 · answer #5 · answered by becca9892003 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
He Has It
2007-07-02 01:48:10 · answer #6 · answered by RandyB 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋