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Athena1's avatar

Thanks for the breakdown!

Just FYI, as kind of an off topic factoid, the vaccine strains of chickenpox go into latency and can re-emerge as shingles, too. The vaccine isn't just one type of attenuated virus, but rather it contains a spectrum of degrees of attenuated viruses, and the least attenuated ones are the ones that make it into the dorsal root ganglia. When you're injected with the vax, there's a rapid process of natural selection that transpires, where the most attenuated viruses are killed quickly, but some in there are almost identical to the wild virus, and you're stuck with them forever, just like with "wild" varicella, although there will be a lot less/fewer of them than if you'd caught nothing but the wild virus instead. So, assuming the theory that varicella is in fact a cause of dementia/Alzheimer's is true, vaccination should still decrease it.

I also have a question you might have an answer to: If these herpes family viruses are a significant cause of dementia and/or Alzheimer's, why hasn't that been demonstrated long ago by doing PCR on the brains of deceased people who died from those diseases? Is it a case of contamination being so commonly behind positive PCR results that it HAS been found, but that can't be ruled out as just from contamination? (I know the neurotropic effects of SARS2 is in dispute for that reason, as well as SV40's relationship with various cancers.)

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Jackson's avatar

It is an interesting article thank you for posting.

Buzz Hollander mentions the preferred vaccine Shingrix in closing paragraphs and authors mention Shingrix in line 118. I had the zostavax vaccine but did come down with shingles in 2021. Lines 448-450 note that the results "apply only" to this earlier vaccine which likely no one takes anymore. The title of the post "will a shingles vacccine prevent alzheimers" is kind of click-bait but the review was thorough. Thank you again...

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