"Can't Blame Shingles on a Vaccine"

(dailyRx News) Sometimes one public health initiative can have unintended consequences. Could this have happened with the chickenpox vaccine and shingles?

Apparently not, according to a recent study that found shingles rates did not increase as a result of the chickenpox vaccine.

Shingles and chickenpox are both caused by the same virus. It’s called varicella zoster with chickenpox and herpes zoster with shingles.