I went to a colleague's birthday party the other night, with 50 people there, around a third of them children, and it turns out two days later that one of the children just came down with chickenpox.
I suspect that was Patient Zero in a soon-to-be epidemic.
Ugh. When I went to a doctor some years ago, after a LONG time of not, I didn't know if I'd had chickenpox as a kid, so they did a titre, and I didn't show antibodies, so they did the vaccine. Then I asked my Mom, and she said I'd had a really bad case with pox on top of pox. But I guess I didn't keep up the antibodies?
I hope you don't get it!
(Are chickenpox vaccines pretty standard there, or no, for little kids?)
I went to a colleague's birthday party the other night, with 50 people there, around a third of them children, and it turns out two days later that one of the children just came down with chickenpox.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that was Patient Zero in a soon-to-be epidemic.
Ewww, ugh. Have you been vaccinated? (It's a very common vaccine, even for adults, in the US.)
ReplyDeleteNo, not vaccinated. But I had chickenpox (twice!) as a kid. (Apparently you can get it a second time if the first time was mild.)
ReplyDeleteI suspect many of the others present were not vaccinated and some of them won't have had it, though.
I hope you feel better soon.
Ugh. When I went to a doctor some years ago, after a LONG time of not, I didn't know if I'd had chickenpox as a kid, so they did a titre, and I didn't show antibodies, so they did the vaccine. Then I asked my Mom, and she said I'd had a really bad case with pox on top of pox. But I guess I didn't keep up the antibodies?
ReplyDeleteI hope you don't get it!
(Are chickenpox vaccines pretty standard there, or no, for little kids?)