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Viral infection causing chickenpox and shingles, associated with inflammation and potential dementia risk

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Can the shingles vaccine stave off dementia?

Because it is what's called a neurotropic virus, so it preferentially targets your nervous system.

Science Friday
Can the shingles vaccine stave off dementia?

Yeah, so I think there's a particularly high level of biological plausibility for the virus that causes shingles later in life, which is the chickenpox virus.