It has long been known that chickenpox is dangerous for adults.  It is rarely so for children unless mismanaged, yet we vaccinate children.  We can expect more and more adults to get it in the future due to this policy with potentially disastrous consequences.  - SM

http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/323/7321/0/b

Chickenpox can still kill adults

More than four fifths of deaths from chickenpox are now in adults, compared with less than half 30 years ago. Chickenpox accounts for about 25 deaths annually in England and Wales, more than from measles, mumps, pertussis, and Hib meningitis combined. Deaths are twice as common in men as in women. Rawson and colleagues (p 1091) draw attention to the importance of chickenpox as a cause of death by examining 119 death certificates that mentioned chickenpox in England and Wales over a three year period. Chickenpox should therefore not be thought of as a innocuous disease.

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