Shingles rarely appear after Pfizer vaccination (study)

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A study suggests that shingles can rarely develop in patients with autoimmune diseases who received the Pfizer-Bioentech vaccine.

An Israeli research team found that people with certain autoimmune disorders were more likely to develop a skin rash known as shingles than people without these disorders. In Israel, 57% of the total population is currently receiving the Pfizer vaccine, forming collective immunity against COVID-19.

Researchers at the Tel Aviv Soraki Medical Center in Israel and the Carmel Medical Center in Haifa conducted a study on 590 people who received the Pfizer vaccine.

Of the subjects, 491 were diagnosed with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic disease, and the remaining 99 were control subjects. Autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic disease causes the immune system to attack bones, joints, muscles or organs, causing rheumatoid arthritis, systemic sclerosis, and mixed connective tissue disease.

As a result, 6 out of 491 autoimmune inflammatory rheumatism patients, or 1.2%, developed shingles. Five out of six suffered from shingles after the first vaccination of the vaccine and one after the second vaccination.

In contrast, in the control group, shingles did not develop even after the first and second vaccinations. “5 out of 6 patients with shingles developed mild autoimmune diseases,” said Dr. Victoria Pure of the research team.

“We can’t say that the vaccine is the cause at this time,” said Dr. Pure. “This study could serve as a warning to watch out for uncommon symptoms in patients with autoimmune diseases.”

“It may be one recommendation for autoimmune inflammatory rheumatism patients to get shingles vaccination before getting the corona vaccine to reduce their risk,” the research team said.

The results of this study (Herpes zoster following BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 vaccination in patients with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases: a case series) were published in’Rheumatology’.

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