疫苗的意外好处：提升长期健康

People often focus on the bad side effects of vaccines, but they can have some great ones too, says Michael Le Page I AM currently arranging to get a shingles vaccination. I had shingles at university and still bear the scars, so I really don’t want to risk getting it again. But I also have in mind the fact that the benefits of the shingles vaccine aren’t limited to preventing shingles. And this isn’t unusual. Many vaccines have benefits that go way beyond protecting against a single virus or bacterium – facts that aren’t nearly as widely known as they should be. Let’s start with shingles. …