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"Well, yeah," said Becks "It’s part of the standard set of field vaccines"
"For a long time, they didn’t have a vaccine for chickenpox--it was a childhood disease, and al back then, because et over the chickenpox pretty easy They itch for a week and then they’re fine Better than fine Having the virus once ain, and for adults, chickenpox is no laughing , all sorts of nasty side effectsr Dr Abbey looked placidly at Kelly "People used to have chickenpox parties, where they’d deliberately expose their young children to so," said Becks
"Now that we have a vaccine, sure Back then, it was a way to save your children fro a lot more It wasn’t safe--kids died of chickenpox--but it was a daht better than the alternative"
"I don’t understand," I said
I do, said George, very quietly
"I do," echoed Alaric I turned to look at him, and he said, "When infants are exposed to live Kellis-Aet sick Only they can get better, can’t they? They can actually recover fro her nose with her left index finger while she pointed at Alaric with her right "Princess CDC, tell the nice man what he’s won!"
Kelly was silent
I say the dryness in my throat, and said, quietly, "Please"
My voice seemed very loud in the enclosed space of the lab Kelly turned to face me and said, "Yes, sometihting off a live Kellis-Amberlee infection It’s impossible to run a standard blood test on an infant, because they can’t amplify, so we can’t find the usual aet sick It’s been seen And then, after a little while, they aren’t sick any her next words with care: "Most of the individuals who undergo a potential infectious episode as infants develop one of the reservoir conditions when they get older, because their immune systems are preconditioned to respond"
"Their bodies remember that the virus is bad, and they set up their own little kennels, filled with their own little packs of do down to thuue lolling "That’s what humanity does when faced olves We take them in, tareed Kelly "The reservoir conditions are a ht back when Kellis-A over"
"That’s why you said she would’ve gotten better, isn’t it?" Kelly didn’t answer I slah to make everyone jued herself into some inner reservoir of contentment "Answer the damn question, Doc"