Chickenpox - if vaccinated can you be infectious?

[devsdev]

Hi all,

My two girls have been vaccinated against chickenpox (only one shot - second shot is being given later than the 8 week gap for various reasons). I have had chickenpox as a kid. My husband doesn't know if he had chickenpox.

We had family staying this past weekend and my 3yr old niece started showing chickenpox spots on Monday (so would have been infectious when staying with us). I'm hoping we all remain pox free, but in the meantime would we all still technically be carrying around the risk of infection to others if we're not going to catch it ourselves? We've told all playdates etc, but I've been coming into work as usual.

Thank you!

Dev

[Melihoople]

After the first dose of vaccine you are 85% effectively protected against CP. (With the booster dose that rises to 98%.) Fingers crossed your husband has had it. But those are good odds.

[Convex]

and i think 1 dose can reduce the severity of the symptoms if you do get it.

[devsdev]

Thanks all - but do you know if we can carry the disease to others even if we're protected? It's a weird question, which is why I can't get a Google answer to it! I'm concerned that we're being poor neighbours and transporting the varicella virus around to others even though we hopefully will avoid catching it...