pox party
Intentional exposure event
A pox party is a gathering where parents deliberately expose their children to a child infected with chickenpox, hoping to induce immunity through natural infection rather than vaccination.
The practice was more common before the chickenpox vaccine became widely available: She caught it at a pox party when she was six.
Now largely discouraged by medical authorities.
- chickenpoxContagious blistering viral infection
- varicellaBlister-causing viral infection
- infectiousAble to spread disease
- feverElevated body temperature
- illnessState of poor health
communicable · spread of disease · exposure · rash · red spots · viral · disease · itch · informed consent · immunity · antibodies · parental responsibility · measles · contagion · scratch · outbreak · public health · blister
disease prevention method
pox partyvaccination
Administered immunity booster
immunization · vaccine · inoculation · chickenpox vaccine · preventive medicine