Originally posted on FairWarning The virus that causes childhood chickenpox doesn’t fade away with youth. It haunts people later in life in the form of shingles, a disease affecting more than one million Americans a year that can cause excruciating pain, lesions, vision impairment and other severe symptoms. As The New York Times reports, about […]
Zostavax recipients shed varicella virus through saliva
By Brian Cohen According to a recent research study, some of the patients inoculated with Zostavax, the shingles vaccine created by Merck, shed the varicella virus through their saliva and inoculation sites for a month after immunization. The research, conducted by Dr. Catherine DiGiorgio of the University of Texas – Houston, may have positive and […]
