Vaccination can also lower your chances of other serious shingles complications. For example, if it shows up on your face, ...

When data from two data sources were analyzed -- one of commercial health insurance claims, the other from Medicare -- ...

Shingles, or herpes zoster, is a painful skin rash with blisters. The disease can occur at any age, but those affected are ...

Chicken pox (varicella) is the disease people get when they are exposed to the varicella-zoster virus for the first time.

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"Out of the 23 reported and investigated cases, 16 were non-serious, ranging from generalized itchy rash, fever, ...

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Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Houston promised on Tuesday that his government would introduce free shingles vaccines ...

Herpes zoster (HZ; shingles ... it is associated with a number of acute symptoms such as a vesicular rash and pain. Longer-term complications include visual disturbances and postherpetic neuralgia ...

Medically reviewed by Jonathan B. Jassey, DO Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is the virus that causes chickenpox and shingles.