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New funding for vaccine could bring pain relief for thousands of people
Skin lesion symptom in Shingles or Herpes zoster in human. Shingles or Herpes zoster is aviral disease caused by varicella zoster virus charatrized by a painful skin rash with blisters on the body. Source: Moment RF / Felix Fernandez Gonzalez/Getty Images
The pain from shingles has been described as aching, burning, stabbing or shock-like. And even once you've got over the disease, as many as one in five people suffer from post-herpetic neuralgia, continuing pain which can last from a few months to several years afterwards. But from next month, a vaccine will become available to eligible people via the National Immunisation Program.
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