How wonderful - the folks who brought us Vioxx that killed off over 60,000 people and lied to us for years about its safety, the folks who will soon be facing another major scandal over Fosamaz and the lovely folks who are killing and maiming our school girls with Gardasil have another vaccine for us.
Or, you could simply eat and live healthily and maintain a strong immune system to beat and avoid shingles the same as you can to beat and avoid virtually any disease or condition which vaccines are designed for - and do so without any vaccine risks.
It should be pointed out that there have been virtually no long term studies on vaccine safety either as single vaccines or in combination with other vaccines and unnatural drugs. The shingles vaccine contains MSG. Do you really feel safe injecting MSG into your body?
To see some natural options for beating and avoiding shingles:
http://www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1774743#i
Thus the benefit of immune modulators found in nature. You know, magnesium, curcumin, blackseed oil, oleander extract . . . Well, on second thought you probably don't know - but then most people don't as they are taught precious little about natural alternatives and swamped every year with a tide of "just ask your doctor" type commercials about the wonder of mainstream medicine.
Regardless of whether we agree on how much an immune system may be stimulated (and I would point out that there are patented mainstream immune stimulators), surely we can agree that that the immune system is our natural first line of defense against illness.
One thing is for sure, my friend - we don't become ill due to a deficiency in pharmaceuticals.
Be sure to keep a lookout for my upcoming article on natural help for MS. I am sure you will be quite the fan.
"Nature alone can cure disease. Doctors cannot heal. They can only direct the sufferer back to the pathways of health. Nature alone can create, and healing is re-creation."
- Dr. Willaim S. Sadler
"Unless the doctor of today becomes the dietitian of tomorrow, the dietitian of today will become the doctor of tomorrow."
- Dr. Alexis Carrol (Famous Biological Scientist and head of the Rockefeller Institute)
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."
- Thomas Edison
"The only safe vaccine is one that is never used."
- Dr. James R. Shannon, former director of the National Institute of Health
"Modern medicine" may well be defined as "the experimental study of what happens when poisonous chemicals are placed into malnourished human bodies."
- A. Saul, Contributing Editor, Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine