October 28, 2003 - Experimental Vaccine to Prevent Shingles Part of National Study - Canadian Press - "For every 100 kids that get chickenpox, she says five of them will have complications, some extremely serious. Secondary bacterial infections have been known to get into the bloodstream and even cause flesh-eating disease in children or travel to their bones and joints...A cautionary theory has been put forward on the chickenpox vaccine-shingles issue...So the concern is: Will we trade a childhood disease for something that's far worse in adults?"

Comment: Where do they get statistics like the 5 in 100 one above?  Click here to see what they used to say about chickenpox, before there was a vaccine for it.  Go to Rise In Shingles Cases Linked To Universal Chickenpox Vaccine Program, in the Online Vaccines Conference at Redflagsdaily.com and Scandals: When is an oops not really an oops?  When you get to solve the problems you cause, and make money doing both! for more on the "chickenpox vaccine-shingles issue".