Shingles

Shingles is a viral infection that causes a painful rash. Shingles caused by the varicella-zoster virus that is the same virus which caused of chicken pox.

The name shingles is derived from the Latin word Cingulum, which means a girdle. This refers to the distribution of the rash (fluid-filled vesicles) in a girdle-like eruption round one half of the trunk.

Who will get shingles? people who has ever had chicken pox can develop shingles. Most adults in the United States had chicken pox when they were children, before the advent of the routine childhood vaccination that now protects against chicken pox...(see more)