alt Hacker News>NHS has been refusing to vaccinate against chickenpox for many years.
what the fuck. why?
god damn I hate rNHS national cult. better get myself vaxxed to undo this idiocy.
>NHS has been refusing to vaccinate against chickenpox for many years.
what the fuck. why?
god damn I hate rNHS national cult. better get myself vaxxed to undo this idiocy.
I believe the worry was twofold:
1) That people who couldn't be vaccinated would get the virus later in life (because it would be less common), when it's a much more serious illness.
2) That there was a protective effect against shingles from having people regularly encounter the disease by encountering children with chicken pox.
But it turns out that the latter isn't actually an issue.