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Shingles is painful because it is a virus from the chicken pox family that infects and irritates the cutaneous or skin nerve to a certain area of skin.
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What is the medical term for the condition commonly known as the shingles?
Shingles is also called herpes zoster
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.
Which herpes causes shingles?
Herpes zoster causes shingles.
What is another name for herpes zoster?
Shingles is another name for herpes zoster.
Viral infection known as shingles?
Shingles is caused by a virus called Herpes Zoster. It is basically the result of chicken pox that has been dormant for years. It emerges years later as shingles.
What organism composes the shingles vaccine?
It's called Herpes Zoster.
What is the medical term for a condition commonly known as shingles?
Shingles is also called herpes zoster
What disease is caused y the reactivation of the chicken pox virus?
Shingles, also known as Herpes Zoster
How can you find more information about zoster?
One can find more information about herpes zoster on the website for the CDC. More commonly known as shingles, herpes zoster is a viral disease characterized by a painful skin rash with blisters.
What is the medical term for the disease called akki in Tamil?
The medical term for the disease known as akki in Tamil is herpes zoster. In English lay terms, it's known as shingles.
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.
What viral infection is also known as shingles?
Varicella zoster virus which is a form of the herpes virusHerpes.Shingles.varicellaVaricellaVaricella.
