Can you believe it? Parents are actually shopping for ways to expose their children to the chickenpox virus in order to avoid the chickenpox vaccine. Turns out what seems crazy is also against federal law.

 

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"Pox Parties" have become so popular that the phrase now has its very own Wikipedia definition page. Parents host "pox parties" to purposely expose and hopefully infect their children with chickenpox. The goal of this dangerous practice is  for the children to develop immunity.

 

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Chickenpox Lollipops

Even worse, some parents are shopping social networking forums for other parents willing to ship them lollipops that have been exposed to saliva of chickenpox infected children. Turns out this practice is not only ignorant and dangerous, it is illegal with a possible 20 year sentence for shipping viral agents. What if the lollipops were also infected with Hepatitis? This is craziness!

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