Can vaccines cause communicable diseases?

Question:

like how chicken pox vaccines can actualy cause chicken pox

Answers:
Only with live attenuated vaccines - MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and Varicella (chicken pox). It is EXTREMELY rare for this to occur in healthy children - one in a million. It is more likely to occur in severely immune compromised children, like kids with AIDS.

All other vaccines are killed organisms or parts of the organism and are not known to cause the disease that they are designed to prevent

Other Answers:
If someone has a severely compromised immune system, this can sometimes happen. Vaccines are usually low doses of the virus or disable virii. Overall, it is extremely unlikely that a vaccine will cause the disease.

There are different vaccines for different diseases. Some are dead versions of the disease and others are less harmful versions (like animal versions). If you are worried about a particular one then look it up on the web link, they have most of them there but are slightly biased towards not vaccinating. Remember that the flip side is you could catch the disease and get very sick or die, also remember that while you may be safe in your country if you decide to travel in the future you may need to then get vaccinated which can be a long process and may stall your holiday plans. Hope that helps.
Source(s):
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm

Yes, it is possible, but the version of the disease contracted in this manner would be unusually mild and typically harmless to healthy individuals. The risks of not being vaccinated are always higher.

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