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What are the symptoms of the contagious disease called shingles?
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Shingles is a very painful disease that causes a stinging, painful rash on one side of the body. It often starts with a headache or flu-like symptoms and then progresses to a painful rash with blisters. In some cases it presents with a very painful area on one side of the body but the rash never develops.
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What is it called when a disease is passed from person to person?
Communicable or Contagious.
Can you sleep in the same bed with someone who has shingles?
Shingles is a herpes virus know as chicken pox (herpes zoster) when it occurs as a child. When it reoccurs in an adult it is called shingles. Chicken pox is contagious but Shingles is not contagious if you had Chicken pox as a child. The most dangerous effect of herpes zoster is when the lesions occur on your retina.
Is contagious disease outbreak considered a contagious disease outbreak?
Of course not! There is a new contagious disease caused by protozoa called Blastocystis hominis(kind of intestinal parasite). associated with digestive disorders which cured by combination of anti parasites Drugs.
Which is considered a contagion?
Any disease easily transmitted by contact is called contagion or contagious disease.
What is swine plague?
The swine plague is also called hog cholera and swine fever. It is a contagious disease that affects hogs and causes symptoms like fever, lesions, and seizures. This disease is caused by a virus belonging to the Pestvirus genus.
What is a contagious itching skin disease called with 8 letters?
Ringworm
What is a contagious skin disease transmitted by the itch mite called?
scabies
What are some illnesses with similar symptoms to Impetigo?
Shingles is a viral disease related to chickenpox. It results from reactivation of the lifelong infection with the chickenpox virus. Chickenpox can cause myocarditis as a complication. There can be secondary bacterial infection of the skin. Rarely there can be viral encephalitis.
What is the medical term for return of disease symptoms?
Relapse is the medical term meaning the return of symptoms of disease. For instance, some people with multiple sclerosis have a relapsing/remitting pattern of disease, with periods of symptoms interspersed with periods of no symptoms.
What are the symptoms of Chromes disease?
There is no such thing as chromes disease. There is a disease called Crohn's and symptoms for it include diarrhea, abdominal pain, blood in your stool and weight loss.
Those who have and transmit the disease organism but do not have symptoms and do not display evisence of the disease?
They are called carrier's.
If the chickenpox and shingles are caused by the same virus why is the virus called varicella zoster when it's associated with chickenpox and herpes zoster when it's associated wit?
The virus is called varicella zoster virus regardless of whether it is causing chickenpox or shingles. The scientific name of shingles disease is herpes zoster, and the scientific name of chickenpox disease is varicella.
