ACIP Recommends Aborted Fetal Vaccine for Shingles
Gov't Panel Recommends Shingles Vaccine
By GREG BLUESTEIN From Associated Press
ATLANTA - An influential government advisory panel voted Wednesday to recommend routine vaccines to protect older adults against shingles.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to recommend the vaccine for adults 60 and over. The committee's recommendations usually are accepted by federal health officials, and they influence insurance coverage for vaccinations.
Shingles is a painful, blistering skin rash that is most common in people 60 and older. It usually goes away after four weeks, but one in five shingles sufferers develops excruciating long-term nerve pain known as postherpetic neuralgia. Complications also can include scarring and loss of vision or hearing. [More]
Comments made by Children of God for Life:
The ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices) has recommended the Shingles vaccine, Zostavax made by Merck Inc. - it uses aborted fetal cell lines MRC-5 and WI-38. Note the vaccine clinical trials shows it worked in only 50% of the people, which is not exactly a sterling track record. But our question is how does one know whether those people who got the shot and did not come down with the disease would have ever gotten shingles anyway? Not all people who contract chickenpox as children get shingles as adults. And many who are vaccinated for chickenpox also come down with shingles.
By GREG BLUESTEIN From Associated Press
ATLANTA - An influential government advisory panel voted Wednesday to recommend routine vaccines to protect older adults against shingles.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to recommend the vaccine for adults 60 and over. The committee's recommendations usually are accepted by federal health officials, and they influence insurance coverage for vaccinations.
Shingles is a painful, blistering skin rash that is most common in people 60 and older. It usually goes away after four weeks, but one in five shingles sufferers develops excruciating long-term nerve pain known as postherpetic neuralgia. Complications also can include scarring and loss of vision or hearing. [More]
Comments made by Children of God for Life:
The ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices) has recommended the Shingles vaccine, Zostavax made by Merck Inc. - it uses aborted fetal cell lines MRC-5 and WI-38. Note the vaccine clinical trials shows it worked in only 50% of the people, which is not exactly a sterling track record. But our question is how does one know whether those people who got the shot and did not come down with the disease would have ever gotten shingles anyway? Not all people who contract chickenpox as children get shingles as adults. And many who are vaccinated for chickenpox also come down with shingles.
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