Posted September 28, 2018
Merck & Co., maker of the first anti-shingles vaccine, Zostavax, is being sued by a woman in Wisconsin who holds the company responsible for her vaccine-induced herpes zoster (shingles).1 After recovery from a varicella zoster (chickenpox) infection, the varicella zoster virus stays dormant in the body and can re-emerge later in life as herpes zoster (shingles) if the person does not receive asymptomatic “boosting” of immunity by coming in contact with children infected with chickenpox. Read more.