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Shingles vaccination seems to reduce dementia: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01256-5 As best I understand it the theory here is that the improvement is from having a more effective immune response to virus reactivation. So there should be an even greater benefit for those who cannot have reactivation at all because they were vaccinated against chicken pox. HPV vaccination reduces rates of a handful of cancers: https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.2024.42.16_suppl.10507 Again, as best I understand it the theory is that part of the HPV replication strategy is to hack up the infected cell's DNA to make it replicate more. Hack too much and you become a wart. Really go ham and you get a malignant tumor. And vaccination probably has a generalized anti-cancer effect: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41819102/ There was a lot of hype about mRNA vaccines after the effectiveness of Moderna's vaccine against SARS-COV-2, but I don't think I've heard any of this incredible news outside of TWiV, a niche virology podcast.