Chicken Pox 101

The chicken pox vaccine, also known as the varicella vaccine, was added to the childhood vaccination schedule for babies aged 12 to 15 months in 1995. In light of waning vaccine effectiveness, it was later recommended that kids aged four to six also get a second booster shot. 

There might be fewer cases of chicken pox now, but what we’re seeing a lot more of is a related and more serious problem, herpes zoster, or shingles.

When is the vaccine given: 

• First dose: 12 through 15 months of age
• Second dose: 4 through 6 years of age
• Older children, adolescents, and adults are also recommended to get 2 doses of varicella vaccine if they are not already immune to chickenpox.

Inserts can be found on the following links: 

• Varivax(frozen) 
• Varivax(refrigerated)

Vaccine advocates are busy fear mongering and raising some of the following concerns about chicken pox: 

1. Chicken pox is dangerous in some individuals - So is the vaccine. The only reason the virus is even feared is because there’s a vaccine for it. 

2. Immune compromised individuals are at risks - What doctors should be asking is where all the autoimmune diseases and child hood cancers are coming from. 

3. Antivax hotspots are reservoirs for diseases - What’s their saying? “Correlation doesn’t equal causation.” 

4. Recent outbreaks started because people didn’t get vaccinated - We don’t even know if it’s a vaccine strain or wild strain or who patient zero is. It most likely came from the vaccine shedding. 

We will address these concerns throughout this unit.

Another point: In the United Kingdom they don’t routinely vaccinate children for chicken pox. As a matter of fact, they even carry things to treat in over the counter in drug and grocery stores.

The ingredients are horrible: 

MRC-5 human diploid cells (from an aborted 14 week old male baby), including DNA & protein, sucrose, hydrolyzed gelatin(derived from animals), sodium chloride (raises blood pressure and restricts muscles), monosodium L-glutamate (MSG), sodium phosphate dibasic, sodium phosphate monobasic (has been known to cause respiratory issues, skin and eye irritants and organ toxicity), potassium chloride, EDTA(Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid-dangerous chelating agent), fetal bovine serum(cow), urea, neomycin (antibiotic- can cause kidney damage)

Source: (1) CDC Pink Book https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/b/excipient-table-2.pdf 

Research concluded that the chickenpox vaccine has failed to provide long-term protection from chicken pox. Source: (2) 

Please note the FDA has added meningitis to the list of post marketing adverse events for Varicella/Chicken Pox, Varivax vaccine. (see paragraph 6.2 of current vaccine insert for post marketing adverse events) Source (3) Vatican FDA Insert

VAERS has As of November 2023 there have 76,453 adverse events reported. It is estimated that only one percent of adverse reactions are reported. Source: (5) VAERS

The CDC says you can get it even if you’re vaccinated. Source: (6) CDC

The Varicella Vaccine is the only one that is missing section 13.1 on the inserts. What’s 13.1? Every vaccine package insert (www.immunize.org) has a section, 13.1, which says essentially "this vaccine has not been tested for teratogenic or mutagenic effects". So the vaccine has not been tested to see if it will cause cancer but the ingredients have.  There is no section 13 in the Varicella package insert (PI). The PI jumps from 12 to 14. Where did 13 go?  If the PI doesn't explicitly say the vaccine hasn't been tested for carcinogenic effects is it because it HAS been tested?  Where are the results?  Why aren't they disclosed?

For years, chicken pox has been considered a mild childhood illness. In fact, they don’t vaccinate against it at all in the UK. 

Why is it so scary now? For one, The relationship between pharmaceutical companies in the media have worked furiously to create the narrative that vaccines are safe and the viruses are dangerous. 

Thankfully we have these books- and a whole generation of adults (bc immunity causes adults!) who remembers that these viruses really aren’t so bad. 

Check out this study showing the death rate is 100 in 4 million. That’s 25 kids for everyone one million that contract the virus. Source: (7) 

Symptoms: The classic symptom of chickenpox is a rash that turns into itchy, fluid-filled blisters that eventually turn into scabs. Other typical symptoms that may begin to appear 1-2 days before rash include: fever, tiredness, loss of appetite, headache. 

It takes 14-21 days for the symptoms to show up. Per the CDC, kids usually miss 5-6 days of school and it lasts 4-7 days. Source: (8) CDC Chicken Pox

How to treat it: 

• High doses of vitamin A 
• Sunshine has been proven to lessen severity
• Oatmeal baths
• Plantain salve 
• Moringa leaves
• Calamine Lotion
• Popsicles for sores inside the mouth
• Trim their nails/put gloves on
• Baking soda, honey, ACV paste
• Stay hydrated 
• Aloe 
• IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU DO NOT GIVE IBUPROFEN DURING CHICKEN POX!  It can cause SEVERE reactions.

Also Chicken pox can be dangerous to pregnant women and their baby. So if you’re pregnant and haven’t gotten it, stay away.

The Varicella vaccine is a live virus vaccine. This means it contains a weakened, live strain of the chicken pox virus. Learn more about shedding HERE.

It sheds.

• Shedding on the insert: Section 5.4 
• Transmission of vaccine derived varicella.  Source: (9) And (10) More transmission of vaccine varicella 
• Varicella shedding from the Source: (11) Oxford Journal.

The vaccine was introduced in 1995. Since then, people young and old haven’t been exposed to the virus regularly. So there might be fewer cases of chicken pox now but we’ve exchanged that for a bigger problem, more outbreaks of shingles among kids and adults. 

It works like this: shingles is caused by the same virus is chickenpox. Once you’ve contracted chickenpox, it lays dormant in your body. You can’t catch chicken pox again, but it can resurface as shingles later. (Usually when you’re immune system is already low.) 

When kids were constantly catching chicken pox, it was “in the air” so to speak. Older people were continually exposed which provided them with a natural booster. Since the disease has declined in wild cases, adults don’t usually have this opportunity. 

Something else you should know: Since the vaccine is live and contains the chicken pox virus, that can also cause you to have shingles down the road. 

Infectious disease modelers at the Health Protection Agency in Britain estimated that shingles might increase 30 percent to 50 percent from vaccination. Source: (12) 

Here’s another good article about it from the Daily Mail. Source: (13)

Don’t forget how helpful contracting these childhood viruses can be! There’s tons of studies showing they prevent more serious diseases. 

• Infectious diseases, including chickenpox and influenza, significantly reduce the risk of developing a brain tumor. It is also here in this study.Source (15); (16) 
• Wild chickenpox infections protect against brain  Source: (17) tumors. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13365-011-0048)
• Compelling evidence on the relationship between chickenpox immunity and glioma.Source: (18) 
• Childhood diseases experienced early in life protect against many different types of cancer later in life.  “It provides more of an indication that there is some protective benefit from having the chicken pox.” Source: (19) BCM https://www.bcm.edu/news/cancer/chicken-pox-may-reduce-risk-of-brain-cancer) 
• There is a correlation between modern health practices that reduced infectious disease rates and increased cancer rates.Source: (20) 
• Febrile infectious childhood diseases (FICDs) are associated with a lower cancer risk in adulthood Source: (21) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9928868)
• Numerous studies confirm that acute infectious diseases protect against several types of cancer.Source: (22) 
• Chicken pox, Measles and other childhood infections protect against cancer of the lymph system.Source: (23) 
• Lymph cancer is more likely in adults who were not infected with measles, mumps, or rubella during childhoodSource: (24)
• Hodgkin’s disease is more likely in adults who were not infected with pertussis, measles, mumps, chickenpox or influenza during childhood.Source l: (25 (26)
• Early exposure to common infections develops and matures the immune system, significantly reducing the risk of lymph cancer Source: (27) (28)
• Early exposure to infectious disease significantly reduces the risk of childhood leukemia.Source (29)
• Infants with the least exposure to common infections have the greatest risk of developing childhood.Source: (30) 
• Early exposure to infections is protective against leukemia. Source: (31) (32) 
• Measles, mumps, and chicken pox viruses have cancer-destroying properties.Source: (33) 
• Chicken pox, measles and mumps all demonstrated equivalent antitumor potency.Source: (34) 
• Most people who get CP have been vaccinated. See image below.