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Texas official warns against “measles parties” as outbreak keeps growing (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I know, that's what my parents did and I needed shingles vaccine.

I'm happy the vaccine is available for my kids and they don't have to worry about shingles when they are older.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

The shingles vaccine for adults originally using a larger dose of the attenuated virus of the childhood vax. But now they have a new one that doesn't use the virus at all, it's called shingrx. It's not advisable to get shingrx or the original shingles vax if your under 50