The Food and Drug Administration has approved a vaccine for shingles called Zostavax. It is made by Merck & Co. Inc, and is only for adults who previously have had chickenpox. Shingles, also called herpes zoster, strikes when the chickenpox virus reactivates and resumes reproducing after lying dormant for decades in nerve cells in the body. (MSNBC)

October 04, 2005

My physician, Peter J. Ouellette of Georgetown University, took one look, asked a few questions and announced his diagnosis: shingles.

I repeated it, to make sure I had heard correctly. Shingles. (Washington Post)

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