Understanding Shingles

One in five people will get shingles during their lifetime. Shingles is an infection caused by a virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox. For those that suffer from a shingles outbreak, they are well aware of its painful and often unbearable symptoms. This is why many older adults choose to get a shingles vaccine…

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Choose A Dermatologist For Your Shingles

If you are one of the 99% of Americans that have had chickenpox, you likely still have the virus lying dormant in your body. In some people, this virus (called varicella-zoster) wakes up after years of dormancy and causes the painful blister rash of shingles. Shingles, or herpes zoster, is a viral infection caused by…

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