Shingles

... chicken pox. once you get it, you dont get it again, although the virus has remained inside of you. only sometimes the virus flares up causing shingles. thus, viruses never die.

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I will guess, the chicken pox virus does that too. That's why we got shingles. right??

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... Shortly after that she began to have a strange rash on her lower legs. The rash turned into lesions that looked something like chickenpox or shingles. Then they spread. The condition seems to cycle -- inactive for just a bit and then erruptions -- anywhere on her body. At times she has had ...

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... for other infections, in some situations. It might be true that it is like the reactivation of the herpes virus within a person who might develop shingles when their immunity is lowered. Or maybe it is more like the way an old infection of tuberculosis, previously held in check by the immune system, ...

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Randy, I wonder if the poliomyelitis can become active in a person, like shingles, and then when it is active, that is when it is contagious. I see these small things that seem like eggs, that are translucent, and they seem to expand and cause pain where lesions ...

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