Jessica

the idea that the generation after mine might literally luck into a significant reduction in alzheimers cases due to expanding shingles vaccination and/or the chickenpox vaccine is frankly a little spooky

EDIT: Important caveats brought up by @belarius here https://cohost.org/belarius/post/1591758-here-s-the-crucial-f, notably:

THIS IS A PREPRINT. The manuscript has not completed the peer-review process, and it may transpire that there are methodological or analytic problems that are identified at that stage that invalidate the above conclusions

#shingles #health #public health #vaccination #Alzheimers #chickenpox #science #Alzheimer's disease

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Birdout: Paradise @SomeEgrets5/31/2023, 4:48 PM

dang, I am almost certainly out of date on this (and probably a few other things that either need to be boosted or were only rolled out after I was out of HS age give or take...)

Jessica @ticky5/31/2023, 4:53 PM

I’m under the impression a childhood chickenpox vaccine confers ongoing immunity, while in some jurisdictions the shingles vaccine is (currently? I guess this could change eventually given this evidence) offered only to people 50 or older unless immunocompromised, so it’s a bit complicated

Ash Greytree @AshGreytree5/31/2023, 5:51 PM

I got chicken pox when I was a kid and between my ADHD and now learning from this post that chicken pox & alzheimers are linked, it makes me afraid of getting Alzheimers in the future.

Jessica @ticky5/31/2023, 5:53 PM

yeah the idea that the chicken pox I can barely remember having as a kid might have in some way affected my (hopefully) distant future is a bit of a humbling thought

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