shingles

Shingles: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, and Prevention   What Is Shingles? Shingles, also called herpes zoster, is caused by the varicella zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox. After someone recovers from chickenpox, the virus remains inactive in nerve tissue for years. It can reactivate later in life and cause shingles. Shingles usually appears as […]