[PROVE] Chickenpox vaccine doesn't work

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[PROVE Note: More and more cases are showing the chickenpox vaccine to not work.

In this Wisconsin school district 44 grade-schoolers have gotten chicken pox

even though all but 2 kids were vaccinated. You would never pay money for any

other product with this kind of track record yet Texas, Wisconsin and almost

every state forces children to get this shot as a condition of attending school

or daycare. A portion of your personal paycheck that goes to your federal and

state taxes is directed to purchasing this vaccine for millions of children in

Medicaid and the Vaccines For Children Program children across the country. It

is time to stop forcing people to get this shot and it is especially time to

stop the American taxpayers from paying for it. ]

http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2006/01/20/news/03pox.txt

Chickenpox strikes G-E-T schoolchildren

Published - Friday, January 20, 2006

By Fiecke / Winona Daily News

An outbreak of chickenpox in the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District that

has affected 36 percent of the district’s kindergarteners has health officials

mystified.

Since mid-November, 44 grade-schoolers have developed the pox. All but two were

vaccinated. The outbreak began at the Kindernook Learning Center — where 36 of

99 kindergarteners developed the virus — and it spread to siblings in other

buildings.

The Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services is trying to find out why

so many vaccinated students developed chickenpox, when health experts rate the

vaccine from 85 to 97 percent effective.

“We’re way above the 15 percent,” G-E-T school nurse Barbara Hogden said.

Dan Hopfensperger, director of the Wisconsin Immunization Program, said this is

the state’s largest outbreak he can recall among vaccinated children.

The only other similar case occurred at a Dane County school in 2003, where

slightly fewer students were affected. Hopfensperger said the state never

determined a cause there.

So far there’s no apparent cause of the large number of G-E-T “breakthroughs” —

term for a vaccinated person who still develops chickenpox.

Hogden said the vaccine is fragile and must be stored frozen. She said the

infected students obtained vaccinations from a number of different providers.

Hopfensperger said there have been no reportsof a bad batch of vaccines from the

manufacturer.

Only one case of the chickenpox at G-E-T cannot be traced back to the

kindergarten building, Hogden said, and that student was not vaccinated.

Wisconsin began requiring all kindergarteners be immunized for chickenpox in

2001. This was the first year all schoolchildren had to be vaccinated or have

had the virus unless a parent requested an exemption based on health reasons or

personal convictions.

The number of reported cases has fallen in Wisconsin from 5,157 in 1996 to 487

in 2005.

Minnesota requires four grades of students to be immunized but will expect all

students to be in compliance by 2010, unless they have an exemption.

Winona Area Public Schools head nurse Mitzi Girtler said she isn’t aware of any

students who’ve developed chickenpox in the district this school year.

Why be immunized?

The chickenpox vaccine is the best way to prevent chickenpox and almost always

prevents severe complications and death associated with the disease.

How effective is the chickenpox vaccine?

About 8 to 9 out of every 10 people who are vaccinated are completely protected

from chickenpox. If a vaccinated person does get chickenpox, it is usually a

very mild case with fewer skin lesions (usually less than 50) lasting only a few

days, no fever or a low fever, and few other symptoms.

Source: Information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Reporter Fiecke can be reached at or

shannon.fiecke@....

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