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Virus that causes shingles, reactivates in nervous system, linked to inflammation and dementia

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Can the shingles vaccine stave off dementia?

We also know that these reactivations of the virus, as it remains hibernated in your nervous system for life, it's in this constant interplay with the immune system, causes these reactivations and they cause some sort of inflammatory process in the nervous system, including effects on blood vessels that Helen has mentioned.