Posted on 12/18/2025 1:35:36 PM PST by algore
Scientists have found that the risk of shingles may rise slightly in the weeks following a Covid booster shot.
The discovery comes from researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, who analyzed electronic health records from more than two million people aged 12 and older who had received at least one Covid vaccine.
The study found that the risk of developing shingles within 28 days of vaccination increased by seven percent when all doses were combined and by 21 percent after the third, or booster, dose of an mRNA vaccine.
Shingles, which appears as a painful, blistering rash, is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, which most people first encounter in childhood as chickenpox.
Separate research found that adults aged 50 and over who were hospitalized with shingles were seven times more likely to develop dementia.
Among men of all ages, researchers found a significantly higher risk of shingles after receiving a vector-based vaccine, with a 38 percent increase.
The authors noted that the increase in shingles risk after a booster mRNA dose is small, temporary, and limited to certain subgroups, and most cases are treated in general practice rather than requiring hospitalization.
The study comes as the FDA is drawing up plans to put a 'black box' warning on Covid vaccines, the agency's most serious warning over potential side effects, reports suggested.
The new study, published in the peer‑reviewed journal Drug Safety on December 11, suggested that shingles might occur after a Covid booster because important immune cells, called lymphocytes, can be temporarily depleted after vaccination, which may allow the virus that causes shingles to wake up.
Repeated vaccine doses, especially a third booster, might also make T-cells less active for a short time, and T-cells help control viruses that hide in the body.
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I have been looking for people who have chicken pox so I can expose myself.
that would prevent me from ever getting shingles.
You don't want a first case of chickenpox as an adult. It is a lot more serious if you contract it at this stage of life. A LOT of severe complications are possible.
Just get the chickenpox vaccine.
And you don't get immunity to shingles from chickenpox. It's the exact same virus, reactivated in later years to manifest in different, painful symptoms.
these poisons were given WITHOUT informed consent
because NO studies were done because of the instant deaths.
Read “Forbidden Facts” by Gavin de Becker.
Let’s just finally admit that the covid non-vaccine vaccine was a bad idea all the way around.
“I have been looking for people who have chicken pox so I can expose myself; that would prevent me from ever getting shingles.”
Actually, you never rid yourself of the chicken pox virus. It just lies dormant in nerve cells.
It sometimes comes back later (when run down, sick, whatever) and you get shingles.
The shingles vaccine (which is essentially the same as the chicken pox vaccine) is essentially the only way currently to lower risk of getting shingles.
It’s an old school vaccine; not the new weird stuff.
If the s**t can trigger shingles, who knows what else it might trigger?
The brain was defective to get the shot in the first place.
A doctor who’s a frequent guest on the Lars Larsson radio show said the shingles vaccine is the single most effective prevention for dementia.
I went to Google Scholar and read some research articles…he was right. Something like a 22% reduction in dementia risk.
So I went out and got the vaccine just in case.
uh, no, getting chicken pox doesn’t prevent you from later getting shingles.
I’ve had both.
They knew this back in 2021.
Check out the papers published four years ago.
“You don’t want a first case of chickenpox as an adult. It is a lot more serious if you contract it at this stage of life. A LOT of severe complications are possible. “
I had chickenpox more than 50 years ago. I just need to remind my immune system what it is.
The reason Shingles is a major thing now is an unintended side effect of the chickenpox vaccine.
Older people are no longer exposed to the virus that causes chickenpox so the immune system kind of forgets that it is a threat.
on the other hand the covid vax freaked out the immune system so badly that it called code red to destroy all of the malfunctioning cells producing spike proteins and ignored cancer cells and stuff like herpes varicella allowing them to be unchecked.
the extra cool thing is that vaxx also infected brain cells which were then destroyed by the persons own immune system. I have not seen any articles about IQ reduction, but it is a thing.
VTenigma wrote: “Let’s just finally admit that the covid non-vaccine vaccine was a bad idea all the way around.”
So, in your opinion, a vaccine that saved millions of lives was a ‘bad idea’?
Still uncontaminated at our house.
Yup, prove it.
VTenigma wrote: “Yup, prove it.”
You were the one who has things to prove, that the vaccine that saved millions was a bad idea.
Nice try, go troll somewhere else.
The shingles vaccine (Shingrix) is one of the few vaccines I trust these days. Got it about 4 years ago. I did get chickenpox as a child so wanted to make sure I had protection against shingles. I’d heard horror stories from friends and relatives about the symptoms.
“The reason Shingles is a major thing now is an unintended side effect of the chickenpox vaccine. Older people are no longer exposed to the virus that causes chickenpox so the immune system kind of forgets that it is a threat.”
That’s called the Hope-Simpson hypothesis.
The Hope-Simpson hypothesis (also called the exogenous boosting hypothesis) proposes that re-exposure to circulating varicella-zoster virus (from active chickenpox cases) boosts immunity in adults who previously had chickenpox, delaying or preventing reactivation as shingles (herpes zoster).
It was proven incorrect.
Shingles incidence was already rising before 1995 in many populations, likely due to aging demographics, improved diagnostics, or other factors unrelated to vaccination.
Post-vaccination studies, including large U.S. administrative data analyses (e.g., MarketScan databases covering millions), found no accelerated increase attributable to reduced chickenpox circulation. Instead, rates plateaued or declined in some age groups over the past decade, even before widespread use of shingles vaccines (introduced 2006, expanded 2017)
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