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Debbie writes, "Can you get the singles, flu and COVID vaccines all at the same time? And what if you have a cold?" ...

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Once Lowe could speak clearly again, he went back to work at WSOC-TV but stayed off camera. Three weeks later - about a month after his shingles diagnosis - Lowe thought his facial paralysis had ...

A southern Manitoba community near Winkler has found itself with cases of chickenpox (the varicella virus) on its hands. For ...

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When Nancy Greeley was in her 50s, her sister, an infectious-disease specialist at the University of Rochester, told her to get the shingles vaccine. Despite Greeley’s best intentions ...