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Shingles virus is commonly known as chichken pox virus.
When chicken pox virus stays latent in the body(in the nervous system) and becomes reactivated after few years, it is referred to as shingles. Shingles occurring in adults has more complications than chicken pox.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoIf you are asking about the adult disease shingles, in which an adult suddenly develops a very painful rash over part of the torso, the disease does not give you the virus. You originally caught the virus (chickenpox) as a child, and it lay dormant in your nerves until something caused to flare back up. When it flares back up, this is when you get the condition called shingles.
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∙ 11y agoShingles vaccination is a vaccination that is for preventing the shingles . The vaccination is Zostavax, which is recommended for everyone after the age of 50. But you need to have the chicken poxs to get the shingles.
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∙ 10y agoIt is the virus that causes chicken pox or herpes zoster.
Varicella-zoster virus-- The virus that causes chickenpox and shingles.
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∙ 14y agoShingles is a skin virus
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Can you carry the shingles but not have it?
Yes you can have the virus, but never get shingles.
Is trichomoniasis related to shingles?
Trichomoniasis is not related to shingles. Trich is caused by a parasite. Shingles is caused by reactivation of chicken pox virus (varicella virus).
Can you get shingles aside from chickenpox virus?
No, you can only get shingles from reactivation of prior infection with chickenpox virus (varicella zoster virus). There is no other cause.
Is shingles a virus caused by skin disease?
Shingles are caused by the varicella virus, the same virus that causes chicken pox. Those who have had chicken pox when younger carry the dormant virus for the rest of their lives. Should the virus "reactivate" in an adult, the result is shingles.
Does tibicos cause shingles?
Shingles is caused by varicella zoster, a virus.
Where you can have shingles?
You can be infected with shingles through direct contact with someone inffected of the virus.
Can sunshine make shingles worse?
Shingles is caused by the same virus that gives children chickenpox. Skin damaged by shingles is extra sensitive and sunbathing may cause the virus to ramp up or reemerge if one has recently healed.
What are the early symptoms of shingles?
When the virus that causes chickenpox reactivates, it causes shingles. Early symptoms of shingles include headache, sensitivity to light, and When the virus that causes chickenpox reactivates, it causes shingles. Early symptoms of shingles include headache, sensitivity to light, and
Is shingles related to botox?
Shingles is a painful disease caused by the chicken pox virus. Shingles has nothing to do with Botox.
Can you catch shingles from other children who have shingles?
No. While you can catch chickenpox, shingles comes from a virus already within you (chickenpox virus) so you can only have shingles if you have previously had chickenpox. I myself had shingles back when I was in the fourth grade but neither my brother nor my sister ever had it.
Can starch cause the shingles?
No. Shingles is the result of the same virus that causes chicken pox.
What are the causes of shingles and what do they go after?
Shingles IS caused by Herpes Zoster virus and it affects the nerves.
