fever after shingles vaccine adults :: Article Creator Dr. Zorba Paster: Throughout History, Vaccines Have Been Lifesavers Every year at this time, I get questions about what shots to get. I'm not talking about kids' shots (I'll talk about that another time), but I mean adult immunizations. Now, for you antivaxxers out there, let me tell you that we conquered diphtheria, tetanus, measles, mumps, pertussis, rubella and polio using vaccines. I remember my mom making me roll up my sleeve in grammar school to get that polio shot as soon as it was available. And let us not forget smallpox, which killed 2 million — count them, 2 million people — every year in the early 1900s. And smallpox has been wiped out, thanks to vaccines. The U.S. And Russia, who have the virus in storage, have said that they would both destroy it. If they did, then the virus would be gone, gone, gone. But neither the U.S. Nor Russia trusted each ...