What You Should Know About Shingles
“I had all the contagious diseases when I was just a little child. I have had Chicken Pox, Measles, Mumps and Scarlet Fever, so as an adult I’m immune, right?” Wrong, that belief only applies to Measles, Mumps and Scarlet Fever.
If you’ve had the Chicken Pox, the virus, called varicella-zoster, stays in your body. It lies dormant for many years, and then it will eventually emerge as a painful neurological disease called Shingles. Nobody knows the reason why it reawakens, or why, in some