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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, you see, it's pretty simple.  Once the virus is in your body, it is always there, and can/will manifest as shingles.  When my child got shingles, at 3, his provider told us that she was seeing at least 100 cases of pediatric shingles a year when she saw almost none prior to the vaccine.  She said it was pretty ironic since the entire point of vaccinating for chicken pox was to avoid shingles later on.  That it obviously wasn't working the way it was intended and that the pharmacutical companies went on to make another vaccine, specifically for shingles, but it can't be administered until you are middle aged to elderly.   
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Oh well, if your child's provider told you about her anecdotal experience, then it must be true, and never mind that the research shows that the incidence of shingles in children is declining:

[i]BACKGROUND:

Vaccine-strain herpes zoster (HZ) can occur after varicella vaccination. This study determined the number and proportion of HZ cases caused by vaccine-strain varicella zoster virus (VZV), assessed the positive predictive value of provider diagnosis of HZ, and computed HZ incidence rates in vaccinated and unvaccinated children.

METHODS:

We used electronic medical records to identify all office visits with an HZ diagnosis for children aged <18 years in a managed care plan. Providers collected skin specimens and completed a questionnaire. Specimens were tested by polymerase chain reaction to identify wild-type or vaccine-strain VZV.

RESULTS:

From May 2005 to September 2009, we enrolled 322 subjects. VZV was detected in 82% of specimens (84% wild-type, 15% vaccine-strain, 1% possible vaccine-wild-type recombinant). Among the 118 vaccinated subjects, VZV was detected in 70% (52% wild-type). The positive predictive value for provider diagnosis of "definite HZ" was 93% for unvaccinated and 79% for vaccinated children. The incidence of laboratory-confirmed HZ was 48 per 100,000 person-years in vaccinated children (both wild-type and vaccine-strain) and 230 per 100,000 person-years in unvaccinated children (wild-type only).

CONCLUSIONS:

HZ incidence in vaccinated children was 79% lower than in unvaccinated children. Among vaccinated children, half of HZ cases were due to wild-type VZV.[/i]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23922376

Also, I'm pretty sure that the entire point of vaccinating for chicken pox is to prevent chicken pox. Which means that the vaccine actually is working the way it was intended. 2 doses of the chicken pox vaccine are 98% effective at preventing chicken pox.[/quote]

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