London – The Health Ministry reported on Tuesday that a chicken pox epidemic has broken out in the UK, especially among the local haredi community.
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All travelers going abroad, especially to the UK, were urged to be vaccinated against chicken pox at their baby healthcare (tipat halav) clinics, health fund clinics, district health fund or travelers’ clinics.
Those aged six to 11 months old need a single dose; those aged from one year to 17 years need two doses at least four weeks between them; and those aged 18 to 56 years also require two doses at least a month apart. People who were born in 1957 or before are considered immunologically protected, and they do not need a booster shot.
The haredi community tends less to get immunized than other sectors.
A few years ago, an outbreak of the measles – which is also highly infectious – among hassidim in the UK led to thousands of cases in Israel, as many came for a huge wedding in Jerusalem.
It took many months before the measles outbreak subsided here.
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Nonsense! Chicken pox is a mild disease in children and a 6 month old is too young for all these vaccinations. Their immune systems haven’t developed yet and with vaccinations for every minor thing, they don’t. Babies will develop natural immunities to different things but if you give too many vaccines too soon, they don’t build the immunities they need and are more susceptible to allergies and other things.
Oy, Hashem, please send a refuah to all those that require one. And please help us understand why davka the charedim are being effected so they can do teshuva.
It’s a shandah. All rabbonim say that we should imunize. In halacha we go with the rov hamotzui that vaccines are safe.
having lived in the UK my whole life, I have never heard of a “chicken pox epidemic”. Here we do not vaccinate against chicken pox as a matter of course, and it is considered one of those childhood illnesses that everyone catches.
Obviously it wasn’t as dangerous as they want us to believe – nobody in either of these epidemics is listed as hurt.
Maybe it isn’t so bad?
Funny, I live in London, in the middle of the hassidic community, and haven’t met anyone who knows about this epidemic. Moreover, to those like like #3 and #5 – we had here in London a doctor Adler z”l, a highly respected doctor, who took the position that these vaccinations shold not be permitted. Moreover, you may try examining the scientific data for these vaccinations – not just accepting at face value what the pharamceutical companies who earn billions on them, or the doctors who earn thousands on them, have to say. Alternatively, maybe you’d like to meet one of the victims of a vaccine failure, a healthy lively child rendered into a vegetative state by one single shot.
We have chicken pox ‘outbreaks’ not epidemics and they are not limited to the ‘Haredim’. They come along every few years and whichever batch of kids in the family haven’t caught it yet catch it and are then ‘immunised’ a few years later the cycle starts again and thus we are all ‘immunised’. They crop up regularly among the non jewish segment too. I’m in Manchester if you’re interested and we have a mild ‘outbreak’.
To #9 Chicken pox has a 2 to 3 week incubation period before you see anything!!
If you have kids look at he back of their necks, behind their ears, etc. Sometimes that is where it first comes out.
why do u hate your kids so much????????????????????
The Haredim plead to Hashem for mercy and for understanding as to why all these things are befalling them. They get an answer they don’t like, so they don’t listen and continue to plead for understanding. That said, the chickenpox is hardly a plague. It’s just something that kids get.
To #4 I have 3 siblings. One of us never had the chicken pox!! Two of us had the mumps 2 did not!! All had the measles!! There is no guarantee on chiuldhood diseases!! Kids should be immunized!!
Its absolutely amazing how every bit of news, good or otherwize, concerning charedim , can be turned into a new round of charedi bashing and hate venting! Some jews are nebach so self hating.