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How Do You Get Caught up If You Have Never Been Vaccinated?

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / January 16, 2019 / adults, anti-vaccine parents, catch-up immunization schedule, historical immunization schedules, natural immunity, regret, shingles vaccine, special situations, teens, titer testing, travel vaccines, unvaccinated

Getting caught up on your vaccines, even if you have never been vaccinated, is easy.

Can You Still Get Shingles After Having the Chicken Pox Vaccine?

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / December 16, 2018 / chicken pox deaths, chicken pox myths, chicken pox parties, herpes zoster, natural immunity, shingles, shingles vaccine, varicella

Not only does the chicken pox vaccine prevent chicken pox, it lowers your child’s risk of later getting shingles.

What Are the Changes in the 2018 Immunization Schedules?

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / February 7, 2018 / discontinued vaccines, immunization schedule, MMR, mumps outbreaks, past immunization schedules, shingles vaccine, Shingrix

The 2018 immunization schedule from the CDC, AAP, ACOG, and AAFP incorporates the latest recommendations from the ACIP, including that folks in a mumps outbreak might need a third dose of MMR.

What to Do If Your Child Is Exposed to Shingles

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / February 4, 2018 / chicken pox, newborns, shingles, shingles vaccine, varicella zoster immune globulin, VariZIG

Shingles is contagious and can cause someone to develop chicken pox if they haven’t already had it or aren’t vaccinated and protected.

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