Row over age limit for shingles vaccination  Ministers want
everyone over the age of 70 to be eligible but campaigners say
age limit is too high  Every person in their 70s could soon be
vaccinated against shingles, a painful infection that can cause
pain, scarring, sight loss and sometimes death in older people.
Four million people in England will be eligible to receive the
jab, as long as ministers can strike a deal with its
manufacturer, after a recommendation by government advisers .
The illness affects an estimated 250,000 people in the UK every
year.  Family doctors and specialists working with older people
welcomed the move. But a row erupted last night when shingles
campaigners demanded that people should be able to receive the
jabs as soon as they turn 60.  The Joint Committee on
Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) specified that only those in
their 70s should be eligible because the burden of the illness
is heaviest in that age group.  But Marian Nicholson, director
of the Shingles Support Society,