Chickenpox is a common disease, but it’s not serious, right?
That’s another misconception. People don’t think of chickenpox as a killer, but it is. Before chickenpox vaccine was available in 1994, on average 11,000 Americans were hospitalized and 100 died every year from chickenpox. But even though it’s mostly kids who usually get chickenpox, over a third of all chickenpox hospitalizations are adults, and over half of all people who die from chickenpox are adults. What’s worse, most adults get chickenpox from their own, unvaccinated kids.
