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People With HIV Are at Higher Risk for Shingles
POZ ^ | July 15, 2026 | Liz Highleyman

Posted on 07/16/2026 9:19:04 AM PDT by fwdude

People living with HIV are about twice as likely as their HIV-negative peers to develop herpes zoster—better known as shingles—but vaccination can close the gap, according to a Canadian study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: gaypride; globohomo; homosexualagenda; monkeypox; nothanks; pridemonth; prideparades; schlongcovid

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Yet another health malady in the long list of those affecting the GerBiLs. What a surprise.
1 posted on 07/16/2026 9:19:04 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: fwdude

Aren’t they at higher risk for just about everything? The ‘I’ stands for ‘Immunodeficiency’.


2 posted on 07/16/2026 9:23:31 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: fwdude

Just to cut through the pablum, “people with HIV” is referring to fags.

Every HIV website is about fags.


3 posted on 07/16/2026 9:24:01 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: fwdude

In that case they should stick to metal roofing.


4 posted on 07/16/2026 9:29:58 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: fwdude

Didn’t need a study or an expert to tell us this. In the immortal words of Reese Witherspoon, “Duh.”


5 posted on 07/16/2026 9:31:43 AM PDT by Sparticus
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I wonder what happens when a homosexual gets both shingles AND monkey pox? That has to be something.


6 posted on 07/16/2026 9:34:15 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: fwdude

Duh.

CC


7 posted on 07/16/2026 9:41:31 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!)
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People with HIV are at higher risk for almost every health problem. HIV weakens the immune system. Treatment for HIV just further weakens the immune system.

Your tax dollars fund Medicaid. Medicaid costs are a barbell.

The biggest weights on that barbell are bad lifestyle choices.

The biggest cost weight per person is non-HIV treatment and the HIV treatments of a person with HIV.

Your tax dollars at work.


8 posted on 07/16/2026 9:42:55 AM PDT by spintreebob (m)
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In that case they should stick to metal roofing.

That was my thought too. Then I realized it's supposed to be "fiddler on the roof", not "diddlers on the roof".

9 posted on 07/16/2026 9:46:37 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: fwdude

In other news they are at higher risk of a prolapsed orifice.


10 posted on 07/16/2026 9:47:06 AM PDT by Kudsman (Free, free Wakanda!)
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To: fwdude

ya think?


11 posted on 07/16/2026 9:51:59 AM PDT by Irenic
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I have been trying to find a chicken pox party just so I will never get shingles.

yes I know some people don’t believe that theory, but whatever.


12 posted on 07/16/2026 10:03:01 AM PDT by algore ( )
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Treatment for HIV just further weakens the immune system.

I'm not so sure about that, but the treatment causes other serious problems, including kidney function decline, reduced bone mineral density, and liver enzyme changes. Over time, these can spiral into other life-shortening conditions.

13 posted on 07/16/2026 10:05:02 AM PDT by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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I have been trying to find a chicken pox party just so I will never get shingles. yes I know some people don’t believe that theory, but whatever.

It's not a theory - people did it successfully for centuries.

14 posted on 07/16/2026 10:07:36 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Anyone notice after the “vax and boosters” there’s now vaccines for RSV, Shingles, monkey Pox and a couple other fairly rare problems?


15 posted on 07/16/2026 10:07:47 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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Sure, but are people with shingles at higher risk for HIV? Maybe on cruise ships?


16 posted on 07/16/2026 10:10:26 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Karliner

A couple of years ago, some drug company happily announced that they were going to combine the flu shot with the covid shot. If they can do that, then they can combine the clot shot with any vaccine. I don’t think any drug company that does this will make it known now.

No more needles for me.


17 posted on 07/16/2026 10:11:06 AM PDT by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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To: fwdude

“people with HIV” Remember, there is a famous former Basketball player that also has HIV due to his many relationships with the fairer sex we are to believe. Granted, most HIV sufferers gained it through certain “practices”, but others have gotten it from toilet seats/s


18 posted on 07/16/2026 10:14:58 AM PDT by abigkahuna
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To: Texas resident

My MD tried selling me another lifetime pneumonia shot better than my last lifetime pneumonia shot a month ago.


19 posted on 07/16/2026 10:15:36 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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Also aluminum siding. Poor bastards.


20 posted on 07/16/2026 10:17:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The Demagogic Party is just a collection of violent, rival street gangs.)
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