Author: Antonia Blumberg / Source: HuffPost
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) intentionally exposed his nine children to chickenpox instead of vaccinating them against the disease, he said in a radio interview on Tuesday.
“Every single one of my kids had the chickenpox,” Bevin told WKCT, a Bowling Green talk radio station, according to The Louisville Courier-Journal. “They got the chickenpox on purpose because we found a neighbor that had it and I went and made sure every one of my kids was exposed to it, and they got it.
They had it as children. They were miserable for a few days, and they all turned out fine.”The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention strongly warns against exposing children to chickenpox as a way of immunizing them.
Chickenpox can be serious and can lead to severe complications and death, even in healthy children. There is no way to tell in advance how severe your child’s symptoms will be. So it is not worth taking the chance of exposing your child to someone with the disease. The best way to protect infants and children against chickenpox is to get them vaccinated.
Bevin said Tuesday he doesn’t think vaccines should be mandated by the government because “this is America.”
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