Chickenpox outbreak in Wisconsin
One school district in Wisconsin has been experiencing a chickenpox outbreak since last November. It seems that 36% of the district’s kindgergarteners have contracted the disease, despite the fact that all but two of the children were appropriately vaccinated. Vaccine advocates claim an effectiveness rate of 85-97%, but clearly not in this case. Despite its apparent poor performance, the newspaper article describing the outbreak still touts the vaccines benefits and encourages vaccination for chicken pox.