Google pays tribute to mark the 94th birth anniversary of Japanese virologist Dr. Michiaki Takahashi, creator of the first chickenpox vaccine with special Doodle
immune response. are vaccines at been directed against one protein called the spike protein on the surface of the virus and that s a protein that mutates extensively, the new variants are new because they have mutations in the spike proteins. on the flipside a lot of traditional vaccines before the mrna vaccines were designed to get the protein, traditional vaccines like measles, mumps, rubella, even the chickenpox vaccine are what we call live attenuated viruses, you re injecting a live virus into the body but it is a weakened form of the virus the cannot cause disease. this is why you don t see people walking around with measles and rubella after getting there m m are vaccine is children. what is interesting is mother nature can also create live attenuated vaccines or viruses that can in some way act as a vaccine unintentionally. to break it down into layman s terms, what you are saying is if this virus is
society over all. i think of the chickenpox vaccine, which was this big deal when it came out. but before we had the chickenpox vaccine around a hundred children a year died of chickenpox. it was too many. they said, we need a vaccine. now we have one and chickenpox is a far less sequential disease. covid is far more consequential than that. this vaccine works. get your kids vaccinated. most who have looked at the studies have chosen to get their kids vaccinated. you interviewed the u.s. surgeon general at a cnn event this morning for cnn citizen and he had exciting news about vaccines for kids under the age of 5. take a listen. i have a vested interest in that as well as i have a 3 1/2-year-old daughter at home. i ve been waiting, too. the trials for kids under 5 have been under way and we anticipate that in early 2022 is when we
wouldn t let him go to school without the chickenpox vaccine. but tonight, senior jerome kunkel revealing he wound up with the chickenpox after all. the 18-year-old refusing to get vaccinated after an outbreak of more than 30 cases at his catholic school. as a catholic, we believe that, you know, abortion is wrong, morally wrong. and since the vaccine s derived from aborted fetal cells, that obviously goes directly against that. reporter: the vaccine can be traced back to the use of cells from two aborted fetuses from the 1960s, but even the vatican has decided that it s morally acceptable for catholics to get them because they protect children. in the end, kunkel lost his lawsuit and almost two months of school, but now went back to class this week. his family saying he is no longer contagious. and david, tonight, kunkel s lawyer telling us he did not intentionally contract the disease to get immunity, but believes he got the chickenpox while serving mass. david? gio, thank you.
on a new radio interview kentucky s matt bevin said he exposed his nine kids to chickenpox so they wouldn t need a vaccine. listen. every single one of my kids got the chickenpox on purpose. we found a neighbor that had it and i made sure every one of my kids was exposed and they got it as children. they were miserable for a few days and turned out fine. here to discuss is dr. sanjay gupta. what s the truth about the chickenpox vaccine? it works. there used to be millions of cases of people who had the chickenpox every year. to be fair we probably all had it because the vaccine didn t come until the mid 90s and most people did fine. there are also 10,000 people hospitalized, a hundred people who died of the chickenpox every year. the vaccine made a significant impact in preventing those