{"id":19106,"date":"2018-08-12T09:52:47","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T23:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=19106"},"modified":"2024-07-01T00:34:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T14:34:17","slug":"merck-in-hot-water-over-dangerous-shingles-vaccine-that-caused-numerous-injuries-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=19106","title":{"rendered":"Merck in Hot Water over Dangerous Shingles Vaccine That Caused Numerous Injuries, Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shingles_vaccine.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19107 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/shingles_vaccine-300x165.png\" alt=\"shingles_vaccine\" width=\"698\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCommercials for the jab showing happy people free of shingles are a common feature of television advertising. But Merck &amp; Co\u2019s \u201cZosatavax\u201d vaccine to prevent varicella, the adult version of chickenpox, is causing the international drug giant some serious headaches after numerous people who got the shot suffered injuries and\/or death.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple lawsuits are making their way through the court system alleging that Merck\u2019s blockbuster vaccine for shingles isn\u2019t safe, and could cause serious adverse effects. Plaintiffs in the state of Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, allege that Zostavax isn\u2019t safe, and are taking to both the state and federal court system to seek justice.<\/p>\n<p>According to Marc Bern of Marc J. Bern &amp; Partners, there have been \u201cthousands of complaints\u201d about Zostavax in Pennsylvania alone. Patient injuries from the vaccine, he says, range from shingles itself, which the vaccine is supposed to prevent, to serious personal injuries such as blindness and paralysis. Other reports of adverse effects from Zostavax include brain damage and death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commercials for the jab showing happy people free of shingles are a common feature of television advertising. But Merck &amp; Co\u2019s \u201cZosatavax\u201d vaccine to prevent varicella, the adult version of chickenpox, is causing the international drug giant some serious headaches after numerous people who got the shot suffered injuries and\/or death. Multiple lawsuits are making &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=19106\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Merck in Hot Water over Dangerous Shingles Vaccine That Caused Numerous Injuries, Deaths&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52129,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19106\/revisions\/52129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}