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Is measles a bateria or virus?
Measels is a disease caused by a virus.
Can having old mercury filling replaced cause shingles?
The replacement of a silver-mercury amalgam or filling has absolutely nothing to do with having the shingles. Shingles is an outbreak, usually in later life, caused by the chicken pox virus. Only those who have had chicken pox can break out in shingles.
Can you get shingles from lying in a bed after someone else who had shingles say in a hospital?
Shingles is caused by the chickenpox virus. You do not get shingles from someone with shingles; you get chickenpox from someone with shingles. Then when you get older, you will get shingles because you had chickenpox. Or, you might get older and never get chickenpox. In that case, you will thank your mother for having you vaccinated against chickenpox when you were a child.
How do you get rhinovirus?
You get it by inhaling the virus through mosture in the environment.
Can you get pregnant after shingles?
You can get pregnant after having 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).
Does tibicos cause shingles?
Shingles is caused by varicella zoster, a virus.
Are shingles caused by people not having childhood chickenpox?
According to my grandfather, if you have chickenpox, or have had chickenpox as a child, then you are prone to having shingles. If you are above the ago of 40 or 50, you have a good chance o getting it too. There are many other reasons to get shingles, I don't know them all. Submitted by: Rachel, age 11, Michigan
Is scarlet fever related to chickenpox and shingles?
Scabies and chicken box are unrelated infections, and having chicken pox in the past does not protect against scabies.
Can chickenpox be caused by shingles?
Once you get the chicken pox infection, the virus gets hidden in your posterior root ganglion. How does it evades the immune system is poorly understood. It comes out in the form of herpes zoster or shingles, when your immunity lowers down. There is no mutation of the virus.
Can you get shingles from fever blisters on lips?
You can't get shingles from cold sores. They are both caused by viruses in the herpes family, but cold sores are caused by herpes simplex, and shingles is caused by varicella zoster virus (chickenpox virus).
Is shingles related to botox?
Shingles is a painful disease caused by the chicken pox virus. Shingles has nothing to do with Botox.
