Shingles is the adult manifestation of the chickenpox virus, a herpes virus that once you have it, you have it forever. it can flare up later in life. the vaccine for it is incredibly effective at preventing heart disease (source: https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/03/16/19/33/shingles-vaccine-drastically-cuts-risk-of-serious-cardiac-events ) so please help yourself and your community and get vaccinated today!
Fun fact, the shongles vax is also linked to lowering dementia risk https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08800-x
Clearly due to shongles causing dementia, thus not getting shongles reduces your chance of dementia! Dementia is likely often brain inflammation, so shongles just cooks ya gourd. Super cool thanks virus
Edit; Even cooler, for shongles vax to reduce the risk of heart disease that also has to mean that shongles causes heart inflammation. Super cool super cool, covid causes heart inflammation and you’re at risk for heart issues at least 9 months out from an infection (maybe life, could be perma organ damage sometimes, again very cool viri) I do not like that so many viri apparently do this