The Center for Disease Control (CDC) of USA recommends that people above 60 years of age be given the vaccine against shingles. It is estimated that the vaccine can reduce the risk of shingles in those above 60 by 50%.

Shingles present as vesicular rashes on the body, usually along the path of a nerve. It happens in those who had a history of chicken pox when the chicken pox virus, varicella zoster, does not get totally eliminated. Instead, the virus continues to survive in the nervous system. When the patient becomes depressed immunely, usually as a result of old age or certain diseases, it appears as shingles.

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