>>>>>http://blogs.webmd.com/breaking-news/2011/11/chickenpox-lollipops-chickenpox-parties.html
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>>>>>What fun...
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>>>>I read that this weekend and was just amazed at how stupid some people are. It's tough to suprise me with the stupidity of people - I keep (mistakenly) thinking they can't get worse..
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>>>I'm not necessarily disagreeing with that, but some parents do in fact want their children to get chickenpox early and get it out of the way. It is a fairly mild ailment when you're young but can be serious if you get it later. And you only get it once.
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>>I had the chickenpox when I was 29. It darn near killed me. Tempature up to 104. Pox covered 70% of my body for a week. Yes, I can say it can be serious.
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>I had them when I was a very young child - young enough that I don't remember it (just my mother telling me that I had had it).
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>I'd much rather see kids vaccinated so they don't get sick and so they don't become little chickenpox carriers.

It was one of those "little chickenpox carriers" that gave it to me. Her mother was scared that she may chase the chicken pox, so she asks me to look after her daughter. Thinking that I had had the chickenpox as child, I said yes. The next day, I went to a job interview. By the time the interview was over, I had at least a 102 temperature. Guess what, I didn't get the job, but did get the chickenpox.