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It's Official: Get Your Shingles Vaccination.

health.usnews.com — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has made official a recommendation it first put out 19 months ago: that adults ages 60 and older get vaccinated against shingles. The potentially debilitating illness involves mild-to-severe tingling, itching, burning, or shooting pain and is caused by the same virus that caused their chicken pox ..

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  • btgoss, on 05/16/2008, -0/+3While not being that old, I was unlucky enough to get shingles during chemo therapy. It is really one of the worst things you can go through, the pain is really very severe.
    If this helps, then everyone should get it when the times comes.
  • chkdg8, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2I got Shingles on my 30th birthday and I do agree that the pain is awful but mandatory vaccinations can go straight to hell.
    • jmpeagle, on 05/17/2008, -0/+1i only see the word recommended...nowhere do I see mandatory.
  • ishay, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1I am so happy I am young and Shingle-less!!!
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