Shingles vaccine for our older members

[aveatry]

I had chickenpox when I reached around retirement age. Bit of a surprise as it was usually a childhood disease (there is now a vaccine for children).

The young doctor I saw had to call in an older colleague because he had never seen it on an adult before.

On the bright side, antivirals stopped its progress in a couple of days, but it was weeks before fully healed. Very contagious, I understand.

You got no kids then

 

[Highway Man]

My mother was a bit of a party animal when I was a child, she organised lots of partys so all of us kids became sick with whatever she wanted us protected from. We had chicken pox partys. german measles partys and mumps partys. Looking back I am now glad she did that for us all.

 

[aveatry]

My mother was a bit of a party animal when I was a child, she organised lots of partys so all of us kids became sick with whatever she wanted us protected from. We had chicken pox partys. german measles partys and mumps partys. Looking back I am now glad she did that for us all.

That was my point to john D - kids are a germ factory

 

[Highway Man]

That was my point to john D - kids are a germ factory

John doesn't understand very well, you have to spell it out for him in easier terms for him to understand

 

[SPLINE]

John and Odds think that the body cannot function without drugs.

 

[JohnD]

John and Odds think that the body cannot function without drugs.

Utter nonsense.

 

[Dec27]

Did you do any research? Because they weren't paid by the company flogging the stuff.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08800

It was a data analysis exercise and the scientists crunching the data are employed at various top tier universities.

Your link is dead ??? No proof there…..

 

[Dec27]

Utter nonsense.

It’s not hard to see that being a possibility

 

[IT Minion]

did my research and did not want the untested experimental gean therapy non vaccine. AND I did not choose it - I was forced to have it.

You did it badly, none of the mRNA vaccines are 'Gene' therapy.

If you don't even understand the language you can't understand the concepts so you can't understand situation so you can't make informed decisions. You're like a Labrador trying to operate a forklift truck.

 

[IT Minion]

Your link is dead ??? No proof there…..

True, I lost a '-x' off the end.

A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature

Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of 7 years by approximately one-fifth.

www.nature.com

 

[SPLINE]

..."you are not intelligent enough to understand it".

(The gist of every post by IT Minion and Justin Passing).

 

[IT Minion]

..."you are not intelligent enough to understand it".

(The gist of every post by IT Minion and Justin Passing).

No, mostly the issue is people too uneducated, lazy and overconfident.

Aveatry probably isn't too stupid to understand the difference between mRNA and gene therapy, but he doesn't care enough to learn what it is.

 

[morqthana]

No, mostly the issue is people too uneducated, lazy and overconfident.

See Messrs Dunning & Kruger.