Unintended consequences: Varicella vaccinated children face more serious risk of developing shingles with life-threatening complications

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From the inception of mass vaccination, childhood vaccines have produced a raft of unintended consequences. One of the biggest problems-gaining steam over the past several decades-involves the vaccine-induced creation of brand-new risks and vulnerabilities that can be more serious than the condition a given vaccine might be intended to address. The varicella (chickenpox) vaccine represents a case in point. Chickenpox, usually mild when experienced in childhood, was once a routine rite of passage. After the rollout of universal varicella vaccination, the incidence of chickenpox declined but observers began noticing a “‘perverse’ boom” in shingles (also called herpes zoster). Chickenpox and …read more

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