An Aussie radio host has shared details of the brutal souvenir she brought home from her idyllic Bali holiday. Jodie Oddy, who co-hosts Nova 919’s breakfast show in Adelaide with Andrew Hayes, revealed on Monday she had recently returned home from the trip with “horrendous” shingles — a painful non-communicable rash caused by the chickenpox virus.

A shocking photo posted to her Instagram page shows the Channel 10 journalist’s inflamed neck, upper chest and shoulder covered blisters. She said the pain was “worse than childbirth”.

The mum of four also posted the image on her personal social media account alongside a photo of her lounging in a pool overlooking a beach in Bali. “Insta V reality,” she wrote in the caption. “Shingles for the win.”

Speaking to The Adelaide Advertiser, Oddy said she went “straight to the hospital” after getting off the plane. “They did all the tests and I was told it is definitely shingles,” she said.

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Aussies share their own shingles horror stories

Numerous fans have sympathised with the radio host online, sharing their own agonising encounters with shingles.

“I had shingles in the eye , hairline and face last year. It was horrific,” one woman said. “Omg that looks painful. I had shingles on my face and inside my left eye as I was turning 16,” another added.

A third woman urged Oddy to “get that shingles jab!”, prompting her to respond “Is it too late? I don’t ever want this again!”

$560 shingle vaccines now free for thousands of people

For more than 200,000 Aussies, free shingles vaccinations will now be available to immunocompromised people between the ages of 18 and 65, the Albanese government announced on Sunday.

A free shingles vaccination is already available for people 65 and older, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders aged 50 and older, and high-risk adults with certain medical conditions.

“Without vaccination, almost 1 in 3 Australians will get shingles in their lifetime,” Health Minister Mark Butler said, adding that over 1.3 million Australians have received a free shingles vaccine since the government commenced the new Shingles Program in November.

“Without listing it on the NIP [National Immunisation Program] Australians who are immunocompromised due to an underlying health condition would have to pay up to $560 for their vaccine,” Butler said. “With the expanded eligibility for the free shingles vaccination, the Albanese government is protecting more at-risk Australians from this debilitating virus.”

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