Shingles vaccine associated with 55 percent reduced risk of disease

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 - 13:41 in Health & Medicine

Receiving the herpes zoster vaccine was associated with a 55 percent reduced risk of developing shingles, according to a Kaiser Permanente study of 300,000 people that appears in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association...

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