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Originally Posted by BigRedBeta
The Shingles vaccine is currently only being recommended for patients 60 years and older.
If you had Chickenpox as child, getting shingles is a possibility. The lifetime risk of getting shingles is about 10% without the vaccine. The vaccine cuts this risk in half, so if you get the vaccine, the odds are only 5% that you'll get shingles at some point in your later years. However, if you get the vaccine and still get shingles, you end up with a milder form of the disease. If you've ever met anyone who has shingles or still suffering from the neuropathic pain that occurs for years afterwards, you'll understand why getting a milder form of the disease is better.
For those who have already had shingles, the vaccine is not currently being recommended. This doesn't mean you can't get it. However, the clinicians I've been working with recently have been telling those who have had shingles to kind of just wait and see what the recommendations end up being.
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Was this for me or the OP? I kind of know this, already, since I have a Molecular Genetics Ph.D. and a paper using Adenovirus...
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