Merck Study Pushes Antidepressant Use with Vaccines

'A new study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases actually claims taking antidepressants will increase vaccine effectiveness.'

“Depressed patients not being treated with antidepressants (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) had lower cell-mediated immunity to the varicella-zoster virus—and were less able to respond to the shingles vaccine—compared with patients who were not depressed or who were depressed but were receiving treatment with antidepressants, the researchers found.”'

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