#chickenpox

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Chickenpox (pictured above) is caused by a herpesvirus called varicella zoster.

Meanwhile, the true pox viruses (of which smallpox, cowpox, and mpox (pictured above) are the ones that have historically infected humans most commonly) are from the family poxviridae. The ones associated with human infections are from the genus orthopoxvirus.

We named chickenpox before we knew this, because it sure does look like a pox virus infection.

The main practical difference is that the smallpox vaccine protects against mpox and cowpox and other orthopoxviruses. You need the chickenpox (varicella, available by itself or as a part of the MMRV combo shot) to protect against chickenpox.

The reason?

I got permanently disabled shortly after being hospitalized with chickenpox.

First, Miracle Mineral Solution (do not drink, you get it the other way) to remove the vaccine toxins.

Jennifer Bendery at HuffPost:

WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. couldn’t say Wednesday if he’d vaccinate his kids today against polio, the highly contagious and deadly virus that was once the leading cause of paralysis among children. During testimony before a House subcommittee, Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.) asked Kennedy, who is notorious for spreading disinformation about the safety of vaccines, whether he’d vaccinate his children today, if they were still kids, against a number of vaccine-preventable diseases. Pocan started with measles. “For measles?” Kennedy said, pausing. “Probably for measles.” “Would you vaccinate your child for chicken pox?” asked Pocan. “I don’t want to give advice,” Kennedy replied. “I can tell you in Europe they don’t use the chicken pox vaccine.” (This is not true.) What about polio, asked Pocan, which was eliminated from the U.S. in 1979? “I don’t want to be giving advice,” said Kennedy. The health and human services secretary insisted his opinions on vaccinating children were irrelevant to his job, which is literally to shape America’s health policy. “I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me,” Kennedy said. “Everybody can make that decision” on whether to vaccinate their kids, he said, and the problem with the health and human services secretary giving advice on vaccinations is that “it will seem like I’m giving advice to other people and I don’t want to be doing that.” “But that is kind of your jurisdiction,” Pocan replied with a puzzled smirk. “Because [the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an agency Kennedy oversees] does give advice.” [...] His refusal to support the polio vaccine on Wednesday is particularly bonkers. Polio causes permanent paralysis and death, and the vaccine, which came about in the mid-1950s, has resulted in an estimated 20 million more people being able to walk today who would otherwise have been paralyzed. It’s also prevented an estimated 1.5 million children from dying.

RFK Jr. is a dangerous bozo that can’t be trusted for accurate health care advice.

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He was an older gentleman and he did have chickenpox in his youth, called عنقز in Arabic. In my generation, I only ever saw a kid with it once (the parents sent the little girl to school while having it?! ... she should have been resting at home! ... most of us kids were vaccinated, but still.)

I used to be confused by the kid's shows from the States treating chickenpox as a common childhood ailment with episodes dedicaed to it, when I had only ever seen it once in real life back then, so I used to wonder why they weren't vaccinating kids against it, BUT today I learned... "The United States was the first country to start universally vaccinating children against varicella in 1995."