Varicella-zoster virus causes chickenpox and is a member of the herpes virus group. It is extremely contagious and causes a ...

Zero shingles cases after 18.8 months follow-up in 619 patients receiving any dose of amezosvatein, a development-stage adjuvanted subunit ...

If the targeted age group is extended to all people older than 65 years, vaccination would prevent 49,538 HZ cases, 29,875 PHN cases and save 10,672 QALYs. When considering total burden of disease ...

Healthcare providers recommend the shingles vaccine Shingrix (recombinant zoster vaccine) for people over 50. It's given in two doses, 2-6 months apart, and is 80-90% effective at preventing shingles.

The vaccine protects against a condition called herpes zoster, more commonly known as shingles. The infection causes a ...

Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) din Atlanta recomandă vaccinarea împotriva herpesului zoster a tuturor celor de peste 60 de ani. Vaccinul antiherpeszoster a fost aprobat de ...

There's a potential new treatment for people who develop shingles that spread to the eye. Doctors say about 8% of shingles ...

Some weeks Laja is doing outreach, spending her day educating a community about which vaccines she can provide and what diseases they prevent. “It’s my responsibility to tell the mothers to ...

Nov 6 (Reuters) - An initial 899,000 vaccine doses have been allocated for 9 countries across Africa that have been hit hard by the current mpox surge, the WHO and other health organisations said ...

he did ask me, ‘Are you sure you want to do this?’” She very much did. “I’m very pro-vaccine. I am a rational human. I understand the necessity of [getting] them,” she insists.