My oncologist said that about 50% of people who have transplants develop shingles at some point later. There are clinical trials on now with a shingles vaccine that is a dead virus. I haven't heard any results on this trial. And, who knows when, and if, it would be approved.
The ABC in Australia has an interview (May 2015) with one of the authors of a recent paper in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Both audio and a transcript is there.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/healthreport/new-vaccine-trial-for-herpes-zoster/6479164
john
Knock on wood I haven't had so much as a sniffle the past 2 years (even on 6 months of induction). After SCT, are we re-susceptible to these common viruses? It seems to me that if we are reinfusing our stem cells, then we are giving ourselves back our previous immunity? Is that right?