(July 17, 2024, 1:35 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A district court judge did not abuse his discretion in dismissing 1,189 cases in the Zostavax XE "Zostavax" shingles vaccine multidistrict litigation after the plaintiffs failed to provide prima facie evidence that their shingles were caused by the Oka strain of the varicella-zoster virus (VZV) used to make the vaccine rather than the “wild-type” of the virus from childhood chickenpox infections, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed July 16....