American parents caught selling chickenpox-infected lollipops

[GommeInc]

As long as its voluntary then I see no problem, its best for your child to contract chickenpox otherwise it can be deadly when older.

Adults handle post in the postal centres. It is a stupid idea as it's putting everyone at risk e.g. the middleman, the postal workers If the lollypops were sent directly from supplier/distributor to the buyer, it would be fine, but they're sending it in the ordinary post where adults may be catch it.

[joshua107]

I think this is wrong, why do that? Why not just get the kidsvaccines?:S

[HotelUser]

As long as its voluntary then I see no problem, its best for your child to contract chickenpox otherwise it can be deadly when older.

But what's not voluntary is the fact that you're not only giving your child the disease, you're potentially giving it to other children as well. As you said it's deadly when older, so that is exactly why it's irresponsible to expose people to the disease when it increases the risks for others around you such as the elderly.

There isn't a Chickenpox vaccine in the UK though

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/1032.aspx?CategoryID=62&SubCategoryID=63

That's pretty interesting Tom! I imagine that will change throughout our lifetime, but regardless you *can* get vaccinated in Canada and the US, so it's still in our best interest not to cause unnecessary exposure to the disease.

[-:Undertaker:-]

But what's not voluntary is the fact that you're not only giving your child the disease, you're potentially giving it to other children as well. As you said it's deadly when older, so that is exactly why it's irresponsible to expose people to the disease when it increases the risks for others around you such as the elderly.

But the disease exists, therefore it is best to have more people immune to the disease whenever a outbreak arises (which it will and always will do so for the forseeable future) so that as many people as possible are able to fight off this potentially deadly infection.

[GommeInc]

That's pretty interesting Tom! I imagine that will change throughout our lifetime, but regardless you *can* get vaccinated in Canada and the US, so it's still in our best interest not to cause unnecessary exposure to the disease.

Interestingly there could be differences in chicken pox in the US/Canada and the UK. We may not have such a violent form of the virus, while in the US it is more deadly. Some of the injections offered by the NHS when we're younger could also cover the extremes of chicken pox too. Depends if someone has a study and if we're active enough to go and find such an article

[Jazz]

Thats nasty, yuck.. why buy/sell those? ewww

[Ford]

That is actually Hilarious.