It is unclear what causes the reactivation, but it is more common in older adults and those with weakened immune systems ( here. Vaccines for both shingles and chickenpox are available. It can later be activated and causes shingles. If a person contracts and recovers from chickenpox, the virus can be dormant in the body. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explains on its website here that shingles is caused by the varicella zoster virus, which also causes chickenpox. The study concluded that the vaccine “might provoke reactivation herpes zoster in patients with AIIRD.” The prevalence of shingles was 1.2% in patients with AIIRD, while there was no infection in the control group of patients without AIIRD. There were 491 patients in the AIIRD group and 99 patients in the control group.
#Herpes linked to covid vaccine update
Reuters has sent emails to the authors of the peer-reviewed study ( here) regarding the misinterpretations and will update this article if they respond.
It specifically focused on patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases (AIIRD) who received the vaccine produced by Pfizer-BioNTech.
The study mentioned in the posts is visible here. The text on one post here reads: “Cheaters have something valid to blame it on now. I definitely don’t need the herp.” Other users commented clarifying the confusion, with one saying, “Not the same thing as the herpes you’re imagining.” That was a side effect of the vaccine” and “Yikes. Comments on the posts misinterpreting the word “herpes” for oral or genital herpes include: “Baby I ain’t cheat on you. Many of the misleading posts simply said the women had developed a “herpes infection”, causing confusion.
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