Re: # of chicken pox lesions to establish immunity?????

Mark & Steven Bornfeld wrote:
bstevens@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Nothing on the cdc site about this. Please post the URL if you have
it.

Bill S.


Everything I've ever read says definitively that a child who recovers from clinical infection develops immunity. The only caveat I can think of is someone who develops a small number of lesions and mistakenly thinks he/she has had chickenpox.

If the lesions were caused by the chickenpox virus, then he has had chicken pox and has immunity. If the lesions were caused by something else, then he hasn't. The doc can always test to see if there are antibodies to the virus in his blood.

Jeff

Steve

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