and then reemerges as shingles, which causes a painful string of rashes, typically on the face or around the side of the torso, he said. “It’s like a poison ivy rash that won’t go away ...

Prompt medical care is advised. Shingles (herpes zoster) is a viral infection caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox. The virus lies dormant in your body for years after chickenpox resolves.

Vesicles (fluid-filled sacs) are tingling and/or painful, and the rash has a very specific distribution on one side of the ...

People aged 50 and over and those who are immunocompromised are more at risk of getting shingles, as well as developing a ...