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Had chicken pox when I was young and recently had shingles. It was so painful but I got lucky and it was over in about a week. Still visible where it was though. But in general I still think making your children just have chicken pox instead of vaccinating them is a common occurence here in Sweden as the vaccine isn't part of the normal vaccination plan.

AIDS denialism is very much a thing.

Here’s my copy of Tom Bethell’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10075481

Universal varicella vaccination (UVV) is not currently part of the Danish National Immunization Program [4]. In the absence of a UVV program, the estimated varicella disease burden in Denmark is considerable, with 63,500 cases annually, mainly among those under the age of 5 years [5]

Oh wow.

And afaik, you guys have a decent healthcare system, so the state is paying for the consultations and treatments of the complications. The vaccine is 40€, I hope nobody goes to the generalist about it twice.

And I just found out it's not mandatory in France either. I was convinced it was mandatory everywhere.

It may also be due to concerns with uptake. Outcomes can be worse at middling vaccination rates with varicella.

I'm also European and getting confused here, my kid got all the vaccinations offered to us but also recently caught varicelle (which is chicken pox by my understanding) at daycare. It was super mild but now I'm getting kinda worried about the whole shingles thing? I also had it as a kid and gave it to my older brother who had it pretty bad, but I guess that was before vaccines for it existed. Gonna look into this...