“but they may not know that the risk of stroke is elevated for a year after infection,” said Andrew Bubak, Ph.D.
A year after “INFECTION”? Shingles are OUTBREAKS. You initially get infected with Chicken Pox (Herpes Zoster) most likely in your youth. So I am not quite sure how you “VACCINATE” against something you already have. The article explains this better further in. I had a shingles outbreak in college but I was infected in Kindergarten. To me the headline reads as a fear mongering, inaccurate sales pitch from the industrial medical complex.
You are correct, but it’s possible the interviewed doctor did that to put it into more conventional terms, but it is wrong.
Technically Shingles is a new type of eruption from the same virus.