A few years ago, I had zoster (shingles) — no surprise,since I was over 60 years of age, and zoster is usually a diseaseof later life. Fortunately, both the rash and the pain disappearedwithin a few days. I was grateful not to have to endure thedreaded chronic pain of postherpetic neuralgia, which can lastfor months or years, and there was no complicating zoster paresis,myelopathy, or vasculopathy. I recalled my first encounter withvaricella–zoster virus (VZV) as a child with varicella(chickenpox); I had to stay home from school for nearly a week(not so . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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From the Departments of Neurology and Microbiology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver.
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A Vaccine to Prevent Herpes Zoster
Kessler K. M., Carroll I., Gaeta R., Mackey S., Oxman M. N., Levin M. J., Johnson G. R., the Shingles Prevention Study Group , Tsai A. G., Gilden D. H.
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