Anti-vaxx Kentucky teen who sued his school for barring him from classes now has chickenpox

A Kentucky teenager who sued his school for banning him after he refused to get the chickenpox vaccine on religious grounds now has chickenpox. Jerome Kunkel, an 18-year-old senior and basketball captain at a Catholic school in Walton, was barred from completing his final term amid a chickenpox outbreak that had, at the time, affected 32 people. Kunkel objects to vaccines because he believes they 'contain aborted fetal cells', and he sued the school in the hope that they would overturn the policy - to no avail. Jerome Kunkel, an 18-year-old senior and basketball captain at a Catholic school in Walton, has had chickenpox for a week, his lawyer said Kunkel objects to vaccines because he believes they 'contain aborted fetal cells', and he sued the school in the hope that they would overturn the policy THE CATHOLIC ISSUE WITH VACCINES In the early 1960s, cells were obtained from two fetuses after two elective abortions - one in England, one in Sweden - neither of which were performed for the purpose of vaccine development. Those fibroblast cells are still used today to make five different vaccines: rubella, hepatitis A, varicella, shingles, and one for rabies.