CDC finds most seniors don`t get shingles vaccination

Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 12:30 in Health & Medicine

Although a vaccine to prevent shingles has been available since 2006, less than 7 percent of U.S. seniors -- the demographic most frequently affected by the disease -- chose to receive the vaccination as of 2008, finds a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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