It is heartening that the Ministry of Health (MOH) is assessing the benefits of including the shingles vaccine on the National Adult Immunisation Schedule (Nais). Vaccines on Nais are subsidised.
While shingles may not be life-threatening, it is usually a very painful infection that can last for weeks. In some people, complications from the viral infection remain long term and, very occasionally, lifelong.
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