The varicella-zoster virus causes chicken pox--a viral disease that is characterized by itchy skin rashes. According to Kids' Health from the Nemours Foundation, a person usually has one episode of chicken pox, but it can reoccur later in life as...
An estimated one out of three people in the United States develops shingles, also called herpes zoster, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Anyone who has had from chickenpox can get shingles -- and your risk for...
In May 2006, the Food and Drug Administration approved a vaccine, known as Zostavax, to prevent shingles in adults over 60. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the shingles vaccine reduces the risk of...
Shingles, formally known as herpes zoster, is a reactivation of the dormant chickenpox virus. In individuals who have contracted chickenpox, the zoster virus lies dormant in the nerves for decades before being reactivated and erupting into...
The painful, blistering skin rash known as shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, which also causes chickenpox. Once you get chickenpox, the virus becomes dormant but remains in certain nerves. Medically called herpes zoster, shingles...
Shingles, the disease produced by reactivation of the virus that causes chicken pox within the roots of sensory or cranial nerves, affects 1 million Americans each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although...
Ocular herpes is a viral infection that stems from the same virus that causes cold sores. This condition typically occurs in only one eye and involves the cornea, the clear outer covering of the front of your eye. Symptoms may include redness,...
Shingles represents reactivation of a previous infection with the varicella-zoster virus. Initial infection with the virus causes chickenpox. As the illness resolves, the viruses assume an inactive form in the nerves. Later in life,...
Herpes zoster, also known as shingles, is a virus related to the varicella zoster virus. This virus is highly characterized by a blister-like rash. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1 million people suffer from...
When a person becomes infected with chicken pox, the body never completely clears the virus. The result, for about 25 percent of Americans, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, is herpes zoster. People with...
Chickenpox is a disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV). A highly contagious disease, chickenpox causes an extremely itchy blister-littered rash to appear on the body. The face, scalp and trunk of the body generally have a higher...
Herpes zoster, also called shingles, is an infection caused by the virus varicella zoster--which also causes chicken pox. But in people who have already had the childhood breakout of pox, the varicella zoster virus can strike again with shingles....
Herpes is generally a sexually transmitted disease caused by the herpes zoster virus. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that herpes is a fairly common disease and affects one out of every six people ages 14 to 49....
All herpes viruses cause painful blisters that lead to open sores. Depending on the type of herpes virus, these lesions can occur on different areas of the body. Two types of herpes, herpes simplex virus type1 (HSV-1) and herpes simplex virus type...
Herpes zoster, also called shingles, is caused by the same virus (varicella-zoster, or VZV) that causes varicella (chickenpox); the virus lies dormant in the dorsal root ganglia for many years until reactivated by an unknown mechanism. The rash...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended in 2006 that all adults age 60 or older get vaccinated against shingles. Shingles is caused by the virus that causes chicken pox, and contracting it as an adult can be very painful...
Shingles is a viral illness caused by the herpes zoster virus. Herpes zoster is also responsible for causing chicken pox; once a person has had chicken pox, the virus lies dormant in her body. Medical researchers are not quite sure what...
Shingles, the common name for the condition doctors refer to as herpes zoster, results from reactivation of the virus that causes chicken pox within sensory and cranial nerve roots. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 30...
Shingles eventually affects about 25 percent of the population, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, most after the age of 40. People with medical conditions---especially those that affect the immune...
Each year, approximately 1 million people in the United States develop shingles, a painful skin rash that affects older adults, according to the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. The herpes zoster, or shingles, vaccine can be...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that shingles strikes one million Americans each year. Most patients experience pain and a characteristic one-sided, blistering skin rash; however, sometimes shingles turns inward, affecting...
Shingles strikes one million Americans each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although shingles is best known for its characteristic one-sided, blistering skin rash, occasionally it produces no skin manifestations...
Shingles is an infection that occurs when the varicella-zoster virus enters your body and attacks your nerve endings. This infection usually presents as band of fluid-filled blisters that begins in the middle of your back and wraps around one side...
Shingles is the common name for the disease produced by the second manifestation of the virus that initially causes chicken pox. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 million people develop the disease each year....
Shingles represents reactivation of varicella-zoster, the virus that causes chickenpox, within the sensory nerve roots of the body. Twenty-five percent of adults eventually develop shingles, according to the National Institute of Neurological...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, estimates that shingles affect 1 million Americans each year. Although the disease is rarely life-threatening and usually resolves on its own without no treatment at all, the CDC recommends...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, estimates that 30 percent of Americans develop shingles during their lifetime. The disease results when the varicella-zoster virus--the same virus that causes chickenpox--reawakens in...
Shingles strikes 1 million Americans each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with most cases reported among individuals older than 50. However, younger people--even infants--can also develop shingles, leaving...
Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, results when the virus that causes chicken pox reawakens within the roots of sensory or cranial nerves. The primary symptoms of shingles, according to the 2008 edition of "Fitzpatrick's Dermatology in General...
