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Old 09-02-2015, 09:09 AM
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Default shingles vaccine

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Originally Posted by Hockey View Post
Oh, shingles can be dreadful.

As others have said, there is a vaccine. I've heard that doctors are reluctant to give it to younger, non-immune compromised patients, because one can only have the shot a limited number of times during one's lifetime. Is that true?
From what I've read you can only have the shot once usually at 50 or older.
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