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Study suggests shingles vaccine may lower dementia risk (www.brown.edu)
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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 hours ago

Shingles is a herpes. Other herpes viruses are also linked to dementia. It’s probably not a coincidence.