The shingles vaccine is on the do not miss list, Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Shingles is a skin infection that results from reactivation of the virus that causes chicken pox. It can occur in areas like the eye where it may compromise vision, and is also associated with persistent and unremitting pain at the site where the skin eruption occurs. These are just two of the reasons to get the vaccine against shingles. Anna Durbin, a vaccine expert at Johns Hopkins, has more. 

Durbin: Shingles vaccine is a very important vaccine to get if you're 50 years of age or older. If you're immunocompromised, if you're a person living with HIV we recommend that you get it younger than 50 because the acute shingles is bad and very painful, you can have long term painful neuropathy as a complication of shingles and you really want to avoid that. The vaccine is very effective at prevention of long-term neuropathy as well as recurrence of shingles and certainly mitigating the disease if it does reappear.  :33

At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.