Why would the new varicella zoster vaccine cause shingles in children?

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


Can you provide us information on the "new" vaccine? I did a search and couldn't find anything that shed light.

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.

Thanks

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.