[Health Pick] The number of patients with shingles who are "King of Pain" is increasing..."Need to introduce national vaccination"

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Regarding North Korea's garbage balloons, Ji Young-mi, the head of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said she was "aware of the risk of bioterrorism" and needed to stockpile vaccines.

He added, "If our own anthrax vaccine is approved, we will start stockpiling in earnest next year."

However, he also emphasized the need to secure the budget, saying, "There are not many related budgets at present."The number of herpes zoster patients, called

The King of Pain', has been on the rise, exceeding 700,000 annually.

Shingles is caused by the reactivation of the chickenpox shingles virus, which was latent in human nerves.

In addition to extreme pain, it can lead to various complications such as glaucoma and facial nerve paralysis.

However, it is known that vaccination costs up to 600,000 won. The National Assembly is voicing the need to secure the budget and introduce it as a national vaccination project.

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety emphasized the need for careful administration as various side effects can occur in relation to obesity treatment injections such as Novo Nordisk's obesity treatment injection "Wigobi," which will be released in Korea this month.

The injection is a specialized drug for adult obese patients and is known to have side effects such as headache, diarrhea, constipation, cholelithiasis, hair loss, and acute pancreatitis.

The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety urged that only highly obese patients should be used carefully according to medical professionals' prescriptions and approved usage, and emphasized that it plans to check over-advertising behavior in medical institutions.

Have you heard of the health living practice subsidy system?

It is a business that provides points that can be used like cash when living a healthy life, and currently operates 'preventive' in 15 pilot project areas and 'managed' across the country.

After checking whether you are a target through the National Health Insurance Service website, application, or offline branch, you can earn points by walking more than a certain step, steadily self-measuring blood pressure or blood sugar, and participating in health care programs.

These accumulated points can be used for medical expenses at the clinic or when buying products at affiliated shopping malls.

We looked at this week's major health news.

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