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9 years ago
Describe shingles in detail and explain why the new Varicella Zoster Vaccine would cause shingles in children?
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9 years ago
Describe shingles in detail and

http://www.ppdictionary.com/viruses/zoster.htm

new Varicella Zoster Vaccine would cause shingles in children?

Can you provide us information on the "new" vaccine? I did a search and couldn't find anything that shed light.
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9 years ago
It's not a new vaccine. It's the only one that has been available. That is just the way the professor worded the question.

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9 years ago
The shingles vaccine is a live vaccine given as a single injection, usually in the upper arm.

Another reason people have doubts about the vaccine is fear that it could give them shingles. We've gotten letters from several readers along those lines. The shingles vaccine is made with a weakened virus, and there are rare instances of "live attenuated" vaccines causing the very disease that they're supposed to prevent. It doesn't happen often, but the live attenuated version of the polio vaccine can cause polio, for example. But from the data reported so far, and from what is known about the disease, fears of contracting shingles from the shingles vaccine are misplaced.
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