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What is a viral disease that can occur in childhood and then reappear in adulthood in a more serious form?
Chickenpox is a viral disease that can occur in childhood as a mild illness but can reappear in adulthood as shingles, a more serious form. Shingles can cause severe pain and complications such as nerve damage.
Compare and contrast a latent virus and an active virus.?
A latent virus remains dormant in the host cell without causing symptoms, but can reactivate later to cause disease. An active virus continuously replicates and causes symptoms, leading to an active infection. Both types of viruses can cause disease, but latent viruses have periods of inactivity while active viruses are constantly causing symptoms.
What are later symptoms of Addison's disease?
As the disease progresses, the patient may appear to have very tanned, or bronzed skin, with darkening of the lining of the mouth, vagina, and rectum, and dark pigmentation of the area around the nipples (aereola
What was the name of the lady Alois Alzheimer first diagnosed with the disease?
The lady's name was Auguste Deter. She was Alois Alzheimer's patient at the Frankfurt Asylum, and her case study became the first published account of what later came to be known as Alzheimer's disease.
Who discovered or first announced Menkes disease or Menkes syndrome?
Menkes disease was first described by the pediatrician John Menkes in 1962. He noticed a distinct set of symptoms in a group of patients, which later led to the identification of the genetic disorder now known as Menkes disease.
Can chickenpox vaccine cause shingles?
Chickenpox vaccine does not cause shingles directly, but the virus, like naturally-caught virus, stays in the spinal cord and may be reactivated later to cause herpes. The chances are lower with chickenpox vaccine than with chickenpox disease.
What is a viral disease that can occur in childhood and then reappear in adulthood in a more serious form?
Chickenpox is a viral disease that can occur in childhood as a mild illness but can reappear in adulthood as shingles, a more serious form. Shingles can cause severe pain and complications such as nerve damage.
What could chickenpox come back as?
Chickenpox virus remains in your body, and may be reactivated later to cause shingles.
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.
Once the treatment of Shingles is completed, can it return in later life?
Yes even after shingles have been treated it can return later on in life.
When a individual who has had chicken pox rarely gets the disease again this situation is an example of?
Aquired immunity. (Although in the case of chicken pox you can get shingles later in life).
The viral infection can remain viable with the dorsal root ganglia for many years?
chickenpox. it may cause shingles later in life
Why microorganisms associate with disease?
Microorganisms are associated with disease because they are the common cause of disease. For centuries it was believed that bad smells or miasma was the cause of disease. This attitude later changed as microorganisms were discovered and proved to be the actual source of disease.
Can shingles cause heart problems?
well iam not real sure but i got shingles and about 5 days later i had a heart attack .i do know it was painful and stressful to deal with ,iamgonna ask the doctor next week. thank you.
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.
Does having the measles make you immune from shingles?
No, in fact Measles causes Shingles later in life. If you have had Measles you may very well develop Shingles when you are elderly. There is a vaccine for Shingles, but it's only available to those over the age of 60.
Can an infected bug bite first diagnosed cause shingles or is it not a bug bite but a single shingle and days later several blisters down your right arm and shoulder that I could feel burst?
The bug bite will not cause shingles. Shingles is a re-activation of the chickenpox virus that affects a single nerve bundle, generally on the torso. The symptoms you are describing could be shingles (particularly if you had chickenpox as a child), or it could be an infection in the lymphatic system (possibly caused by a bug bite).
