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Originally Posted by KDCat
Ugh. I hate that people deliberately give kids the chickenpox. Chickenpox usually is a mild disease, but if you have it, you usually never get rid of it. The virus lurks in your body for the rest of your life. When you are over 60 or become immune compromised, it can spring back to life and give you shingles, which is extremely painful, and which can reoccur over and over.
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In the days when we had the chickenpox parties it was thought that only those who had never had chickenpox as a child would be susceptible to shingles when they were older. The parents thought they were preventing problems down the line only to learn later they were wrong.
DaffyKD
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