nobody seems to be checking the facts. So I’ll give you the due diligence.
the live vaccines such as Varicella, MMR and polio mist, have a component of the disease that is still live. In plain english this means that it can be spread through contact with bodily fluids. saliva, blood and breath… So when child A is vaccinated against the chicken pox with the varicella vaccine he/she sheds the virus for _________ days. This means that the unvaccinated and/or immunocompromised individuals are at risk of contracting the disease which child A was vaccinated for, within_________days of coming in contact with child A. Through their breath particles…or other bodily fluids. this is an excerpt from the merck Varivax vaccine package insert.
5.4 Risk of Vaccine Virus Transmission
Post-marketing experience suggests that transmission of vaccine virus may occur rarely between
healthy vaccinees who develop a varicella-like rash and healthy susceptible contacts. Transmission of
vaccine virus from a mother who did not develop a varicella-like rash to her newborn infant has been
reported.
Due to the concern for transmission of vaccine virus, vaccine recipients should attempt to avoid
whenever possible close association with susceptible high-risk individuals for up to six weeks following
vaccination with VARIVAX. Susceptible high-risk individuals include:
infection and all newborn infants born at <28 weeks gestation regardless of maternal varicella
immunity.
Hatzlacha and do your own research.
bottom line who is at risk? And most importantly, who gives over this risk?