 | A chickenpox epicenter has taken hold at a school in North Carolina where many families claimed religious exemption from vaccines. Asheville Waldorf School serves children from nursery school to sixth grade in Asheville, North Carolina. About a dozen infections grew to 28 at the beginning of the month. Now there are 36 cases. |  |
It's the worst outbreak since the chickenpox vaccine became available more than 20 years ago. The flare-up demonstrates the real-life consequences of 'junk science' and religious zealots. The claim of an autism risk, though it has been completely debunked, has remained the rallying cry of the anti-vaccine movement. The CDC warns chickenpox is serious, even life threatening to "babies, adolescents, adults, pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems."
