Introduction: Shingles (herpes zoster) causes substantial morbidity, especially among older adults. The shingles vaccine has been recommended for people aged >= 60 years since 2006. This study assessed recent shingles vaccination at national and state levels among adults aged >= 60 years....
10.15585/mmwr.mm6534a4is on theCenter for Disease Control(CDC) web site at[1]and the second citationDOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2012.05.050is an article in Vaccine at[2]. Both articles describe the effects of the vaccine for varicella which is the virus that causes chicken pox and shingles (...
Adolescents:Vaccines recommended include the HPV vaccine to prevent certain cancers and the meningococcal vaccine to protect against meningitis. Adults:Adults should keep up with flu shots and tetanus boosters (every 10 years) and, depending on their age and health status, may need shingles and pneu...
50 years old who received a shingles vaccine, at lower risk of developing postherpetic neuralgia compared with those who did not receive shingles vaccine?]]>doi:10.1097/EBP.0000000000001495Khyati KadiaGretchen SheleskyAmisha MehtaAmy HaughMary Pat Friedlander...
Herpes zoster or shingles results from reactivation of varicella zoster virus, usually due to a decline in cell-mediated immunity with age or immunosuppression. Although the commonest complication is post-herpetic neuralgia, herpes zoster has increasingly been associated with vas...
Herpes zoster (HZ) incidence rises with age, especially after 50 years of age, probably due to waning varicella-zoster virus (VZV)-specific immunity. The Shingles Prevention Study [Oxman MN, Levin MJ, Johnson GR, Schmader KE, Straus SE, Gelb LD, et al. A vaccine to prevent herpes ...