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Shingles is the clinical manifestation of activated herpes zoster viruses that normally live within nerves reaching the skin surface, forming painful papular lesions in a dermatomal distribution specific to their home nerve.
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∙ 10y agoShingles is an acute infection that is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox. It is a painful condition that involves inflammation of the sensory nerves. The symptoms are numbness, itching and and pain followed by the appearance of a blistery rash in a strip pattern on one side of the body. The pain can last for weeks, months and even years after the rash heals.
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∙ 15y agoShingles is just a term shingles actual name is Varicella Zoster Virus. After an indivudal has chickenpox, this virus lives in there nervous system. Scary Huh?
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∙ 6y agoVaricella is the name of disease; the virus that causes it is varicella zoster virus (VZV).
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∙ 8y agoHerpes zoster is the medical term meaning shingles.
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∙ 13y agoshingles (also called herpes zoster)
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shingle
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