Chicken Pox and Shingles

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/03/health/03vaccine.html

There are always new discoveries in Health and the medical world. For example in 1995 a vaccine was created and given to children so that they might prevent and become immune to chicken pox. But, now researchers are saying this could not be a great thing for adults. They are finding that with out the exposure of children with the chicken pox virus more adults are catching shingles which is a type of chicken pox. With exposure they build immunity but without it they are more likely to develop shingles. Researchers are now trying to make a vaccine for the shingles virus that they would be able to administer to adults. This hopefully, decreases the chance of them developing shingles. I found this very interesting and hope that they do find a vaccine.