The issue of zoster risk has come to the fore with fingolimod because of two fatal cases. One involved a clinical trial participant who died of a disseminated primary VZV infection in 2008 after taking the drug for 10 months. The second was reported in April 2013 and involved a case of reactivated zoster infection in a patient who had taken fingolimod in a postmarketing observational study for 6 months following treatment with natalizumab (Tysabri) and a 3-month washout period.
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