Here in UK, the National Health Service offers the vaccine free for people aged 70 and those aged 79, from September this year. Weird, but it's all they can offer, a staggered programme. Anyone between those ages must wait until they're 79. Over 80, sadly, the vaccine has limited efficacy. You can get it done privately if you're over 50 for between £100 and £200, but there are few supplies. Anybody offered this jab should grab it with a grateful heart, because believe me it's a dreadful thing, not only extremely (and I mean agonisingly) painful, but also carrying a risk of blindness if trigeminal, and even death (a certain number of the elderly actually die from shingles each year) Our church organist was terribly ill with shingles a few months ago. By the way, my Doc. sister says Femcyclovir is better than Acyclovir for inhibiting the virus from replicating once the symptoms appear, but it has to be taken within 24hrs. And my own GP said it was too expensive and gave me Acyclovir, which was useless IMO. Anti-Vaccinations people are of course welcome to their views and fears, but I only hope they never get shingles, they'd sell their very soul for pain relief once the post-herpetic neuralgia sets in!