Unvaccinated teen banned from school during chickenpox outbreak now has the illness

[TexasTowelie]

CINCINNATI - The high school senior who went to court to challenge a health-department restriction over chickenpox at his Walton school has come down with the illness, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Christopher Wiest of Covington said Jerome Kunkel, 18, got sick with chickenpox last week, nearly two months after the Northern Kentucky health department issued its order to control an outbreak at two small parochial schools in Boone County.

“He’s fine. He’s a little itchy,” Wiest said.

In January, chickenpox broke out at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart School and Assumption Academy, its high school. The schools and its church are affiliated with the Society of St. Pius X, a conservative branch of Roman Catholicism that rejects Vatican II reforms.

Nearly 90 percent of the schools’ students have religious exemptions against vaccinations. The exemption form warns that the health department can restrict school attendance in case of an infectious disease outbreak.

Read more: https://www.reporternews.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/08/vaccine-lawsuit-kentucky-student-has-chickenpox/1145459001/
(Abilene Reporter-News)

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. With any luck at all, most of those 90% will now get chickenpox.

The upside is, of course, that once they recover they will be permanently immune from chickenpox. They will also be susceptible to shingles, but what the hey! Once they are old enough they can get the shingles vaccine.

Fun fact! You can get shingles at any time in your life after you've had chickenpox. My son got it at age 20. But the shingles vaccine won't be given to anyone under the age of 50! So enjoy 30 years of shingles!