In Atlanta, Panel To Discuss Vaccine Effectiveness, New Shots

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will begin its two-day meeting Wednesday in Atlanta. The federal panel of experts recommends what vaccines children and adults should receive and when.

Matt Rourke / Associated Press file

Two years ago, George Green got stabbing pain and bad blisters around his right arm. It was the worst case of shingles his doctor had ever seen.

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“I said, ‘Wait a minute, I had the vaccine! How come I got this?’” recalled Green, a 68-year-old engineer in Austell, Georgia, who got the shot seven years earlier.