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Your Good Health: OK to wait a year for vaccine after shingles

Dr. Keith Roach / The Times Colonist

Dear Dr. Roach: I am 81 years old and was diagnosed with shingles at the end of October 2020. After taking famciclovir, I am healing, but still have a scaly rash and shooting pains ...
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