Shingles News

• Shingles vaccine in short supply
  Local older adults are waiting months for a vaccine to prevent shingles, a painful and potentially debilitating disease. […]
• Health Dept. has shingles vaccine
  Many people have heard of a medical condition called shingles, but aren’t sure what is. And those who have had it, will tell you quickly that it’s not a pleasant experience. A vaccine recommended for people 60 and older to prevent shingles is now available at Southwest District’s 14 county health departments. […]
• Health department offering shingles vaccination
  A single dose of Zostavax® vaccine provides protection against shingles, a painful rash caused when inactive chickenpox virus awakens in the body of someone who once had the disease. […]
• Fight against Shingles now starts at Health Department
  Updated with video; Dougherty County has a new tool in the fight against shingles. […]
• Health departments offer shingles vaccine
   A vaccine recommended for people 60 and older to prevent shingles is now available at Southwest District's 14 county health departments. […]
• What You Should Know About Shingles
  Although we sometimes like to think that non-fatal illnesses can be so thoroughly cured that they never recur, that’s simply not true in the case of shingles. […]
• Glenn’s Strategies for Well-Being: About Chickenpox and Shingles
  *Almost everyone gets chickenpox by adulthood. In the United States, chickenpox affects about 4 million persons per year, mostly children. In temperate climates, most cases occur in the late winter and spring. Although most people think that chickenpox is always a mild disease, deaths from chickenpox continue to occur in the United States. Although most [... […]