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Reports of herpes simplex reactivation after COVID vaccination: A case series
Afroz Abidi1, Ghizal Fatima2, Shruti Srivastava1, Saibal Chakravorty3
1 Department of Pharmacology, Era's Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Department of Biotechnology, Era's Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
3 Department of Internal Medicine, Metro Multispeciality Hospital, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Afroz Abidi
Department of Pharmacology, Era's Lucknow Medical College and Hospital, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/upjimi.upjimi_4_22
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Vaccination is a safe and effective way to control preventable infectious diseases. Since December 2019, the world has been facing a global pandemic of COVID-19. Physicians and scientists were totally baffled and unprepared for this sudden emergency, but the continued efforts of researchers help control the disease. Apart from the emergency use authorization of drugs, experts swiftly explored a number of candidate COVID-19 vaccines including live-attenuated, viral-vectored, nucleic acid–DNA and RNA, protein subunit, and inactivated vaccines. Post approval from regulatory authorities in India, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare introduced a vaccine in the market after successful phase II/III clinical trials.
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