LAS CRUCES - Many people have experienced the discomfort of chickenpox — the viral illness that covers a person's body in itchy pink blisters. But did you know the same virus can strike a second time, ...

ANSWER: Yes, you can develop shingles. The only chicken pox vaccine licensed is a live, weakened strain of the chicken pox.

Monkeypox is caused by the monkeypox virus, pictured here, and not the herpes zoster virus, which causes shingles. (Photo By BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images) Monkeypox is not the same thing as shingles.

Diagnosed with a shingles infection in late February, Sen. Dianne Feinstein is now hospitalized and undergoing treatment at a San Francisco hospital. Anyone who has contracted the virus knows how ...

Both shingles and poison ivy cause a painful, blistering rash. Poison ivy is an allergic reaction, while shingles is a viral infection. Shingles also causes additional symptoms that can differentiate ...