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Shingles could be new but rare side effect of Covid vaccine, docs discover
https://www.the-sun.com UK ^ | Apr 21 2021, 5:00 ET - Updated: Apr 21 2021, 5:52 ET | Terri-Ann Williams, Digital Health Reporter

Posted on 04/21/2021 5:50:38 AM PDT by Red Badger

Experts in Israel found that patients with certain autoimmune diseases who received the Pfizer/BioNTech jab were more likely to develop the rash than those without the condition.

Side effects can occur with any medication, including vaccines.

They are always listed on the product information leaflet which comes with the medication.

Most people who have a Covid jab won’t suffer any side effects but for those who have experienced them, the most common include pain at the site of injection and fatigue.

Medics at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Carmel Medical Center in Haifa found that shingles was five times more common after the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.

The experts said the study “should not scare people” but that it needed to be published so that doctors were aware of the possible side effect.

Dr Victoria Furer, a rheumatologist at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, said that they cannot say for sure that the vaccine is the cause of the shingles, a skin rash also known has herpes zoster.

Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, she said: “We can say it might be a trigger in some patients.”

She added that five out of the six patients who had developed shingles after the vaccine had an autoimmune disease.

Dr Furer said: “That is why we reported on it. It seems that the reason is that there is some association.

“We should not scare people. The overall message is to get vaccinated. It is just important to be aware.”

What is shingles?

SHINGLES is an infection that causes a painful rash and blotchy patches on the skin.

The condition is serious enough to merit seeing your GP — so what are the symptoms to look out for?

Shingles is caused by an infection that re-triggers the varicella zoster virus (VZV).VZV firsts infects the body when you get chickenpox, and the virus can remain inactive in nerve cells to reappear as shingles.

It is not fully understood what can trigger shingles, but old age, a poor immune system and having had chickenpox before 18-months are risk factors.

What are the symptoms?

The most common first signs of shingles are tingling or pains in patches of the skin along with headaches.

A rash can then appear, usually on the chest or stomach — but it can also appear on the face, eyes and genitals, according to the NHS website.

The shingles rash appears as red blotches on your skin, on one side of your body only. A rash on both the left and right of your body is unlikely to be shingles.

The blotches become itchy blisters which ooze fluid. A few days later the blisters dry out and scab.

The rash can form a band that only appears on one side of your body. The skin remains painful until after the rash has gone.

You should speak to a GP as soon as you suspect you have shingles.

Medication can speed up the recovery. Some autoimmune diseases, autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases (AIIRD), can cause the immune system to attack certain parts of a person’s body including the organs.

People with AIIRD include those suffering from conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis.

Many people with this condition will suffer swelling and joint numbness.

Millions of people across the UK have received a first and second dose of the Pfizer jab and the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), have not released any information to suggest patients have come down with shingles.

In total, 33 million Brits have received a first dose of either Pfizer, Oxford/AstraZeneca or Moderna jab, with more than 10.4 million having had a second.

Published in the journal Rheumatology, the team looked at 590 patients who received the Pfizer jab.

In the group, 491 of the patients had a form of AIIRD.

The study found that 1.2 per cent of the patients with AIIRD developed shingles - this is just six patients.

Five patients contracted shingles after the first dose, and one after the second.

The researchers added that a larger study would need to be conducted in order to garner better results.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Israel
KEYWORDS: autoimmunedisease; fauxccine; herpes; shingles; sideeffects; vaccinebadeffects
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To: phoneman08

Health organizations show that anyone born in 1980 or later was likely (99% of population) exposed to chicken pox as a child. While we can still get shingles, it’s survivable.

Chicken pox, like COVID, is very mild for children, making it an ideal vaccination target for youth.


21 posted on 04/21/2021 6:22:28 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: Red Badger

I worked with a guy many years ago whose wife nagged him forever to get a flu shot. He kept refusing and the nagging kept escalating to the point where he finally gave in just to keep the peace....well, he got the shot and then ended up with shingles. He was pissed and the next year she kept her mouth shut.


22 posted on 04/21/2021 6:24:01 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP)
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To: rarestia

I take anti virals everyday as a prophylactic for shingles (due to immune system issues). For 5 years now. Need to get the new shingles vaccine so I can get off of the meds.


23 posted on 04/21/2021 6:29:09 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: Red Badger
pain at the site of injection and fatigue.

That's the reaction I had the day after each of the two shots. The day after that I was fine....

24 posted on 04/21/2021 6:31:15 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Last thing my priest said to me at confession was "I didn't need to hear that")
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To: rarestia

Shingles is caused by re-activation of the varicella zoster virus for those that have had chicken pox.

Are you saying that it’s devastating to those who have had chicken pox as adults or for those that have not had chicken pox at all? Because you can’t get shingles if you’ve never had chicken pox.


25 posted on 04/21/2021 6:42:11 AM PDT by Hazwaste (Socialists are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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To: Hazwaste

So you’re saying if you never had chicken pox, the varicella zoster virus just misses you altogether? Perhaps you should review the links I sent earlier in the thread.


26 posted on 04/21/2021 6:43:27 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: rarestia
weren’t exposed to chicken pox as a child

Oddly enough, I didn't contract chicken pox until I was in the Army. I caught it from my room mate and was quarantined at the base hospital for 10 days.

What was really weird tho, all the skin on the palm of my hands peeled off leaving them super sensitive to anything I touched.

27 posted on 04/21/2021 6:43:33 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Last thing my priest said to me at confession was "I didn't need to hear that")
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To: rarestia

I had chickenpox as a kid back in the sixties. While it was miserable, I didn’t get nearly as sick as I did from the German Measles. I have a heart murmur to this day from the measles.

So the chickenpox vaccine came out around 1980?


28 posted on 04/21/2021 6:46:38 AM PDT by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz )
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“rare”?

I’ll bet not..


29 posted on 04/21/2021 6:48:08 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith....)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Yes, I got my first shingles dose in late February, thinking it would be good to have the first, before I became eligible for the Covid vaccines. I luckily had no reaction (or, very minor) to either the shingles shot nor either of my Covid shots. Still have to get the 2nd shingles shot in the next few months.

A lady at my office had reactions to both of her shingles shots, missing work, out “sick”.


30 posted on 04/21/2021 6:49:04 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: phoneman08

I don’t know about the vaccine. Having to react to some bullies in this thread, I came across a couple of articles that showed that starting in the 1980s, chicken pox became a common illness for youth, and apparently 99% of adults under the age of 40 have had it. That’s a pretty substantial number.


31 posted on 04/21/2021 6:49:04 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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Ha! It’s not a ‘vax’ bug....it’s a FEATURE!

😜


32 posted on 04/21/2021 7:02:50 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: rarestia

That 1980 figure is probably right. I looked it up and the vaccine came out in 95. So I suppose we won’t know if the youngsters can develop shingles from not having to go through the disease as a child for a few decades.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/varicella/public/index.html


33 posted on 04/21/2021 7:04:17 AM PDT by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz )
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To: NEMDF
My issue with the first shingles shot was that I also received a flu shot and a tetanus shot at the same time. My doctor warned me that “you might not feel so well”. He was right.

A buddy told me that he was fine after the first shot, but the second one made him feel terrible. He cautioned me to get the second on a Friday so that I would have the weekend to recover.

34 posted on 04/21/2021 7:12:23 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Red Badger

I had shingles for a month, then I got Covid.


35 posted on 04/21/2021 7:22:34 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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36 posted on 04/21/2021 7:32:26 AM PDT by SJackson (Whom will insane lust for power spare, if it dares violate ties of kin & friendship? Dominic Mancini)
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To: Red Badger
Autoimmune issues continue to surface in reports of illnesses, side effects. In the thread below, the doctor noticed several patients had 'evolving' neurological problems (changing, not leaving or resolving).

MODERNA Vaccine Wreaks Havoc on Lytton BC and Local Doctor Blows Whistle! (BANNED ON YOUTUBE!)

4/18/2021, 4:42:21 PM · by ransomnote · 64 replies
odysee.com ^ | April 15, 2021 | @DRutter, Dr. Charles Hoffe
 
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Then there's this article which provides evidence that immune suppression is occurring in Israel's mass-vaccinated population. That could explain the rise of illnesses like shingles and the BC doctor's neurological issues in his patients following vaccination.
 

 is the evidence that Israelis are experiencing nationwide immunosuppression and therefore mortality for all causes is going up. This is what happens if you hit the immune system of an entire population hard; people begin to start dying of illnesses they would have otherwise survived:

Israel: Why Is All-Cause Mortality Increasing?
Swiss Policy Rearch ^ | March 31, 2021 | SPR

Posted on 4/5/2021, 1:39:08 AM by Cathi

Two interesting articles providing info on Israel's vax program:

Israel: Why Is All-Cause Mortality Increasing?

https://swprs.org/israel-why-is-all-cause-mortality-increasing/

By early March, Israel had vaccinated about 90% of its 65+ population and about 50% of its entire population. Covid deaths had been decreasing since the end of January, as expected, although not any faster than in some other countries with a very low vaccination rate, such as South Africa.

Concerningly, however, Israel has seen a renewed and continued increase in all-cause mortality since mid-February; in fact, by March 21, Israel reported the highest excess mortality of all countries participating in Euromomo (see figure above). In contrast, many other European countries currently report a post winter wave negative excess mortality. The cause behind this renewed increase in Israeli all-cause mortality appears to be unclear.

 

37 posted on 04/21/2021 7:33:30 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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38 posted on 04/21/2021 7:38:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: rarestia

You aren’t getting Shingles from the shot...

The shot is triggering the existing virus, that you have in your body if you had Chicken Pox, to activate... Most likely by weakening the immune system in some way that allows the virus to exit dormant stage.


39 posted on 04/21/2021 7:39:40 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HighSierra5

That’s what they want you to do. They were having a great time locking down the world every few weeks, and then Trump’s efforts to develop a vaccine had to come along and succeed and ruin everything. So they’ve got to keep putting it down. These horror stories are infinitesimally unlikely except in one in a million cases, and they happen with every major pharmaceutical, with comes with a warning disclosure in fine print. F@#$ it. I took the vaccine already. I’m free in my mind and body.


40 posted on 04/21/2021 7:41:18 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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