Dd had c.p when she was 2 and I was still breastfeeding 6month old ds at the time. He has been at nursery for a few months and we know he has been exposed to the virus (unkowingly) when some friends came to visit the other week.
A thought occurred to me this morning. I know that ds would have had some passive immunity from me in utero and also at the time I was b/feeding him; but is it possible that if you are exposed to the virus whilst receiving passive immunity, you could actually develop active immunity to it?
Does that make any sense at all or am I talking utter nonsense?
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Chicken pox - is this at all possible?
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milkysallgone · 27/03/2009 09:00
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