All this talk about vaccines....If you're over 40 you may have noticed you don't see kids with chicken pox much anymore. That's because they vaccinate them (or give them the herpes simplex virus) when they are babies. This is bad. One reason this is bad is because it makes older people more at risk for getting Shingles. They are more likely to get Shingles because their immunity against the H.S. Virus has been waning for years because of the abnormal lack of the virus which people used to be....