A Kentucky teenager who sued his high school for banning him because he wasn’t vaccinated against chickenpox now has chickenpox, NBC News reports.
Jerome Kunkel, like an untold number of children and teenagers like him, did not get vaccinated when he was a baby, as his parents hold to religious beliefs that don’t allow for vaccinations.
That became an issue for Jerome in March, when his school, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Assumption Academy in Walton, had a chickenpox outbreak. School officials, without directly blaming Jerome, banned him and other unvaccinated students from attending the school unless and until they got vaccinated.
Kunkel sued, and he lost his case in court.
Kunkel now has chickenpox.
Family attorney Christopher Wiest says that his family has no regrets about not getting the teenager vaccinated.
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