I contracted chickenpox and it nearly killed me
When I was a child, I contracted chickenpox, a disease many dismiss as not dangerous. Unfortunately, I nearly died of the disease
Varicella vaccine — 25 years of success against chickenpox
The varicella vaccine has had over 25 years of success in preventing chickenpox, a disease that killed 145 children per year pre-vaccine.
Chickenpox nearly eliminated in USA because of the vaccine
We know that vaccines work, but it’s good to have data such as chickenpox has been almost eliminated in the USA because of the chickenpox vaccine. We should be dancing in the streets because of this.
Let’s take a look at this new data, but first, we need to talk about chickenpox and the vaccine. Just to make sure everyone is up-to-speed with accurate information.
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VARIVAX chickenpox vaccine — falsely attacked by Del Bigtree and ICAN
And here we go again with more anti-vaccine nonsense from Del Bigtree‘s Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) – now, it’s the VARIVAX chickenpox vaccine. And, of course, there’s nothing that ICAN claimed that is accurate or worrisome about the chickenpox vaccine.
VARIVAX is a well-studied vaccine that is both demonstrably safe and demonstrably effective. However, Bigtree and ICAN always think they have some amazing catch that shows that vaccines are bad. And they are never right, so that’s why we have to spend time taking it down.
Let’s see what they have to say, but first a little bit about chickenpox.
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There is no human foreskin in vaccines — why do I have to write this?
I never know how these tropes start, but I just read an anti-vaxxer claim that vaccines include a bit of human foreskin. I really didn’t want to write about it, but I guess I have to do it, just because I spent time trying to figure out if it were true.
We will discuss how the human foreskin is related to vaccines, and it is fairly interesting. But you can guess that the only reason this is a thing is that there is a huge intersection between the intactivists, those who oppose circumcision, and the anti-vaccine world.
We’re going to ignore the whole circumcision argument, even though there is a lot of scientific evidence supporting it as a medical procedure, as this article is solely about vaccines or at least the use of the human foreskin in developing and producing vaccines. And why the human foreskin in vaccines is another zombie myth.
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