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Chicken Pox protection

Posted by Margaret McD on 29/8/2025, 10:56 am

If children can soon be offered free chicken pox protection, what has been the procedure recently?

Re: Chicken Pox protection

Posted by Brian on 29/8/2025, 12:35 pm, in reply to "Chicken Pox protection"

I wonder if it's a follow on to the shingles vaccination.

Re: Chicken Pox protection

Posted by Norman on 29/8/2025, 12:59 pm, in reply to "Chicken Pox protection"

My wife said if you wanted Chicken Pox vaccine previously you had to pay for it as it was just Measles,Mumps & Rubella that was free.
Migrants could be bringing all sorts of diseases into the UK.

Re: Chicken Pox protection

Posted by Sheila on 29/8/2025, 3:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Chicken Pox protection"

Norman, I think one problem is immigrant families are frightened and don’t trust injections, they fear them especially for their children.

Re: Chicken Pox protection

Posted by AJG on 29/8/2025, 5:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Chicken Pox protection"

If the UK is anything like America, there could also be a growing wave of anti-vaccine sentiment. A lot of that started here during the COVID pandemic, where people spread all sorts of ridiculous rumours about the vaccines containing mind-control microchips or whatever.

Thanks to all that, we have an outbreak of Measles, which we haven't had in years.

Unfortunately, the current Government has an anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist in charge of the Health Department who is vowing to cut funds for vaccine research, so who knows what we'll get in the future.