Infectious Diseases A-Z: New shingles vaccine should soon be available
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Channel: Mayo Clinic · 2018 · Science & Technology
"In excess of 30 percent of all of us are going to develop shingles sometime in our life," says Dr. Gregory Poland, director of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. That's why the medical community is so hopeful about a new shingles (herpes zoster) vaccine called Shingrix that will available soon in the U.S. Dr. Poland says the vaccine is more than 90 percent effective. "It's as good as any vaccine that we’ve ever seen and, I think will protect people at extremely high rates in preventing shingles." More health and medical news on the Mayo Clinic News Network http://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/
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