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Never had chicken pox? Consider a shingles vaccine
Q. If I never had chicken pox, do I need a shingles vaccine? I'll be 60 in January.
A. The shot you're talking about is an immunization against a virus called the varicella-zoster virus. This virus causes two common illnesses and a few rare ones. The two common illnesses are chicken pox and shingles (also called "zoster").
The varicella-zoster virus usually enters our bodies in childhood,...
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