MSD Korea releases shingles vaccine for elderly

MSD Korea said Monday that it has launched Zostavax, a live vaccine to reduce the incidence of herpes zoster (known as shingles) in adults aged 50 and older.

Herpes zoster is a viral infection that causes a painful rash. Although shingles can occur anywhere on the body, it most often appears as a band of blisters that wraps from the middle of the back to one side of the chest to the breastbo...