Reply #148: Do they have methicillin resistent staph aureus parties for when they get pneumonia?

[McCamy Taylor]

I know that chicken pox parties used to be the rule in the pre-vaccine days, but older kids esp. can die from the disease.

http://dermatology.about.com/cs/chickenpox/a/chickencomp.htm

Link about complications. Since another risk is bacterial secondary infection and since so many kids are carrying MRSA in their noses now, your child may get run of the mill chicken pox, and the sores may get infected and the oral antibiotics may not treat the infection and the child may end up quote ill with MRSA.

But go ahead and have fun at the chicken pox parties.