I turned 50 during the pandemic and, like most people, I put off all nonessential health care, including my shingles vaccine. Big mistake. When the telltale red bumps of shingles cropped up on my face ...

The chickenpox vaccine contains a weakened version of the live chickenpox virus, also called the varicella zoster virus. This means there’s a very small chance of getting chickenpox from the ...

Shingles is caused by a reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus, the virus that results in chickenpox. After a person recovers from chickenpox, the virus might travel into nerve tissues, where it ...

These two reports address the effects of varicella-zoster vaccination and varicella vaccination. Richard Whitley, who chaired the data and safety monitoring board for the Shingles Prevention Study ...

You can see what a shingles rash looks like here. A reactivation of the varicella-zoster (chickenpox) virus causes shingles. A shingles rash will affect the nerve pathway where the virus reactivates.

Introduction: Conventional management approaches have been challenged in dealing with zoster-related trigeminal neuralgia. Percutaneous trigeminal ganglion stimulation (TGS) has been rarely reported ...

When reactivated in the dorsal root ganglia, the varicella-zoster virus can cause herpes zoster, which provokes immune and inflammatory responses that result in severe pain. If its duration is ...

Shingrix (recombinant zoster vaccine) is a newer vaccination, approved in 2017 by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for ...

Varicella pneumonitis is also commonly fatal ... confluent bilateral nodular opacities. Herpes zoster ophthalmicus.