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Shingles vaccine update (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) |
Some 90 percent of the 43 million Americans aged 60 and over have had chicken pox, and most of them should be vaccinated against shingles, a painful, blistering rash caused by reactivation of the varicella zoster virus that causes chicken pox, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention says. Final CDC recommendations for the use of Zostavax, the new shingles vaccine, were published …
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