The Galveston County Daily News, April 9, 2019
In this edition of Vaccine Smarts, Drs. Richard Rupp and Megan Berman discuss chickenpox parties that were popular in years past as a way of exposing young children to the illness before they got older. With the introduction of a safe and effective vaccine, the number of chickenpox cases have dramatically declined making the parties a bad idea. [See the attached file for the full text of the story.]