I'm sorry to hear about your childhood friend.

Published: November 20, 2007, 5:33 pm

Hello Helene. I'm sorry to hear about your childhood friend, it's always a tragedy when a child dies. More than likely there were extenuating circumstances with this young boy, because death is very rare with chicken pox. More than likely, today this boy would have lived, because he would have been able to be treated with anti-viral medication (before this medication was available, children had different degrees of illness, some could be more severe than others). If I thought that less children would die because of this vaccine, I would agree with you. But, as I tried to explain in my post...Because this is not a life-time immunity, there will be potentially more deaths associated with chicken pox. You see, the older a person is when they get this virus, the more serious it will be (and it's even more serious if a women is pregnant when exposed). Think about that for a minute...if you are only protected for 7-10 years, you could potentially be exposed to this virus in your

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