Inactivated COVID-19 vaccine-related herpes zoster and post-herpetic neuralgia: Three case reports

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:06:29 +0300

Vaccination programs against COVID-19 have been implemented all over the world since December 2020. Beside the common side effects of vaccines, there are also increasing reports of herpes zoster (HZ) activation. In this report, we describe three cases of HZ, one of them with post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN) after receiving inactivated COVID-19 vaccine. The first two patients developed HZ 8 and 10 ...