Doctors are calling on the Alberta government to publicly fund the shingles vaccine for everyone 50 and over.
Shingles is triggered when the dormant chickenpox virus is reactivated, causing a blistering rash and nerve pain. It can lead to hearing and vision loss, and in rare cases it can be deadly.
What many people don't realize, according to Hu, is that shingles can cause nerve damage and pain that can last for years. This complication is known as "post-herpetic neuralgia.""Shingles is not a benign disease and anybody who's had shingles — and I'm glad I haven't — can tell you how nasty it was for them."
"It's definitely something that we definitely talk about or discuss with our patients, that's for sure," he said.And Shingrix is expensive. At Cambrian Pharmacy, the two required doses cost a total of $360."The vaccine is highly effective. And we really just need to make it more accessible for more Albertans by making it free for more Albertans," said Hu.
"What I'd like to see is across the country, across Alberta, that we actually provide universal coverage, free access for this vaccine, because we know that right now only 27 per cent of older Canadians have received a shingles vaccine.'"
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