Keep forgetting your shingles shot? These sufferers wish they hadn’t

Keep forgetting your shingles shot? These sufferers wish they hadn’t
The infection is characterised by a painful rash or blisters on the skin. (Image: Fisle / Wikipedia)
The Washington Post
By Elizabeth CohenWhen Nancy Greeley was in her 50s, her sister, an infectious-disease specialist at the University of Rochester in New York State, told her to get the shingles vaccine. Despite Greeley’s best intentions, life got busy, and she never got the shots.Instead, when she was 68, shingles got her.Shingles inflames the nerves and, even now, more than three years later, the intense pain she experienced is seared in her mind.“On a scale of one to 10, it was a 10,” said Greeley, a retired project manager with the Army Cor...

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