the painful, blistering shingles rash can damage your eyes and cause long-term pain called postherpetic neuralgia. If you get this rash, you can also infect others with chickenpox. The two-dose Shingrix vaccine is recommended to prevent
GlaxoSmithKline plc announced that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted unanimously to recommend two doses of Shingrix (Zoster Vaccine Recombinant, Adjuvanted) for the prevention of shingles (herpes zoster) and its complica...
Immunization update: latest recommendations from the CDC: Provisional recommendations for the varicella zoster vaccine, plus pertussis, hepatitis B, HPV, a... (ACIP) has recommended that adults who are 60 years of age and older receive a single dose of live attenuated varicella zoster virus vaccin...
The recommendations will likely lead to a lower uptake of the new vaccines than the manufacturers might have expected had the ACIP voted to accept the stronger “should” recommendation. At a point this spring, a GSK executiveprojected that salesof the RSV vaccine could rival those of Shingrix,...