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FDA Approves New Shingles Vaccine for Adults

posted by martyb on Tuesday October 24 2017, @12:07PM   
from the getting-on-your-nerves dept.

takyon writes:

https://www.statnews.com/2017/10/20/shingles-vaccine-approval/

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a second shingles vaccine, giving pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline a go-ahead to market Shingrix in the United States.

The FDA approval marks the second regulatory green light for the vaccine in a week's time. Last Friday Shingrix was approved for sale in Canada. Regulatory filings are also in the works for the European Union, Australia, and Japan, GSK said.

The vaccine offered 98 percent protection in the first year and that protection remained at 85 percent or higher three years after vaccination — stronger protection than the only other shingles vaccine on the market, Merck's Zostavax.

GSK has been keenly awaiting the FDA's ruling, eager to get to market a vaccine analysts estimate could reach $1 billion a year in sales by 2022.

Also at FiercePharma and The Pharma Letter.

Wikipedia's entry for shingles (aka herpes zoster).

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• Just another toolJust another tool (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @05:18PM (5 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @05:18PM (#586949)

  Vaccines are just another tool of the violently imposed monopoly. They dope the vaccines with mercury to dumb down the sheeple. What we need are a series of contracts that allow humans to naturally evolve into the most optimal system which will enable their own immune systems to fix any medical problem. Broken bones? No problem for those who drink their milk. Lost a finger? Eventually we'll evolve regeneration so that will be a couple of weeks inconvenience at most.

  If you do actually require the services of a medical professional then you should really question your life choices.

  PS: I apologize if my invocation of "sheeple" caused your local area to be invaded by subterranean creatures.

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• Re:Just another toolRe:Just another tool (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @05:48PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @05:48PM (#586963)

  PS: I apologize if my invocation of "sheeple" caused your local area to be invaded by subterranean creatures.

  Oh... well... I guess it's all right then. The ritual wasn't terribly hard to repair, and they're back asleep now. I guess just don't do it again.

  It would be very kind of you, however, to, uh, compensate us for the mercury we had used to inject the sheeple with while the ritual was being repaired.

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  • Re:Just another tool(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @06:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @06:04PM (#586969)

    I don't recall contracting with you before, do you have a signed agreement from one of my partners? If not piss off or I'll sic my contractually obligated dobermans on you.

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• Re:Just another tool(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday October 24 2017, @05:52PM

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday October 24 2017, @05:52PM (#586965) Journal

  Goddamn, Poe's law overload!

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• Re:Just another toolRe:Just another tool (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday October 24 2017, @07:53PM (1 child)

  by DannyB (5839) on Tuesday October 24 2017, @07:53PM (#587063) Journal

  Vaccines are just another tool of the violently imposed monopoly.

  Microsoft does not make vaccines.

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  For some odd reason all scientific instruments searching for intelligent life are pointed away from Earth.

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  • Re:Just another tool(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @08:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @08:51PM (#587086)

    I dunno, extensive use of their operating system has definitely helped me avoid some serious STDs!

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