Vaccines that help prevent the devastating disease shingles could also offer a boon against cognitive decline.
Shinglesis due to the varicella zoster virus, the same germ that causes chickenpox in children and younger adults.
Thankfully, theres been a vaccine for shingles available since 2006, Zostavax.
Vials of Shingrix, a vaccine for the shingles virus.© Albany Times Union/Hearst Newspapers via Getty
A way to stave off dementia?
This new study from scientists in the UK,publishedin the journalNature Medicine,aimed to do just that.
And theres still the question of how this protection is happening if it is genuine.
At the very least, the scientists say their work should motivate more definitive research looking into this link.
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