Contracting chicken pox EVER (not just as an adult) can lead to shingles. Shingles is just a mutation of the chicken pox virus dormant in your system. Someone with shingles can give another person chicken pox but shingles itself is not contagious. (Sorry, my husband got shingles last spring at the age of 31 after…

I'm a professional (Hey mom, I'm an Immunologist!) and say it is NOT possible to over-vaccinate. I'd go into details, but ehhhh no one really wants me to talk about IgG and IgM peaks.

What gets me worked up is the people who are posting that in my Facebook circles are the same bitches who say "be thankful you're only a step-mother. Imagine what us real mothers go through!" Oh, fuck your vagina with a jackhammer. I raised my step-kids because their "real" mother couldn't do it so back your fucktruck…

I watch the Science Channel a lot because I'm a nerd. There are a lot of shows about futurism, i.e. what the world will look like 20, 50, and even 100 years from now. And it's amazing to me that people can get excited by what the future will look like, because I honestly don't believe we'll ever get there. We're just…

Ya I know you can do it. I just don't understand how risking other peoples lives is acceptable, what if some other child who is unable to get vaccinated because of whatever reason gets sick because of an unvaccinated child. Are the parents of the unvaccinated child then responsible for any medical bills as a result?

Yep. And contracting chickenpox in childhood can lead to shingles later in life.

Actually, not that hard to imagine, given the mere existence of nosocomial diseases. It is highly likely that she contracted one of these diseases, and while in the hospital, contracted the rest, due to the fact that many hospitals are breeding grounds for several disease, many of whom we are vaccinated against, and…

Chicken pox is a terrible experience and entirely preventable. At the very least you're looking at kids missing school and you missing work. At the worst, you end up exposing the disease to people who could be seriously harmed/killed by it. Please read Prevent Chicken Pox - CDC

I am a mom and I hate this.

Mummies would always have enough toilet paper. The list should include "butt wiper."

Amen. My husband has COPD, and if one of you "I never get the flu" folks so much as sneezes on him, he can get the flu which can turn into pneumonia which can kill him.

Christ, I hate that thing so much.

The worst thing about anti-vax is this: for every disease that this woman survived (thank goodness), she passed it to many other people including people with suppressed immune systems (AIDS, cancer), infants too young for vaccination, and elders whose vaccines have worn off.

It shouldn't be a question. People shouldn't be able to opt out of driving tests for licensees for religious or personal reasons, they can't do it for other life threatening things either. PERIOD.

I don't understand how parents are allowed to say that they are against vaccines and then can bring their children into areas (schools) with other children and put them at risk. I live in Canada and when I was in elementary school, a couple kids didn't have up-to-date immunization records and were not allowed to come…

I would say the worst part of being vegan is that naturally a lot of your friends are anti-vax, anti-fluoride, anti-GMO nutjobs.

Jesus christ on a stick, no. You don't get to have a personal exemption from public safety and science.

Being a mummy doesn't make you a scientist. (Nor does it make you a teacher or lawyer or chef or judge or particle accelerator support technician, no matter WHAT the adorable Facebook chain post says.)

All you're going to hear anti-vaxxers say is that it is propaganda. What they won't point out is that all of their 'evidence' is anecdotal as well, or just plain wrong.