The risk of shingles jumps 11-fold after the first dose of the recombinant shingles vaccine, marketed under the name name Shingrix, but decreases by 73% after the second, according to the results of a ...

By Hugo Francisco de Souza Blood-based aging clocks suggest that shingles vaccination may modestly slow molecular aging ...

The varicella zoster virus (VZV), an infectious virus from the herpes virus family, is primarily known to cause varicella in children and shingles in adults. But lately, this virus has also been ...

The increased incidence of herpes zoster (HZ, shingles) resulting from the reactivation of latent varicella zoster virus (VZV) in US adults began before the use of routine varicella vaccination of ...

According to the World Health Organization, there are approximately 10 million new cases of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia around the world each year. According to the World Health ...

Varicella is caused by varicella-zoster virus (VZV), an enveloped dsDNA virus responsible for varicella (chickenpox) and herpes zoster (shingles). VZV is one of eight herpesviruses known to infect ...

Varicella–zoster virus is the cause of both varicella (chickenpox) and herpes zoster (shingles). A live attenuated varicella vaccine was developed in Japan in 1974, and in 1995 it was approved for use ...

Researchers observed a rise in adult central nervous system (CNS) infections, primarily aseptic meningitis caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV), post-2019. The researchers highlighted the ...