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Health Encyclopedia: Shingles And Chickenpox (Varicella Zoster Virus) Risk Factors
- Shingles and Chickenpox (Varicella-Zoster Virus) - Risk Factors
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Risk Factors
The varicella-zoster virus is responsible for both chickenpox and herpes zoster, but its method of infection is different in both diseases.
- Both the active varicella and zoster form of the virus can cause chickenpox.
- The shingles virus in its latent (inactive) form is never infectious.
Catching Chickenpox. Most people get chickenpox from exposure to other people with chickenpox. It is most often spread through sneezing, coughing, and breathing. It is so contagious that few nonimmunized ...
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RA Brings an Increased Risk of Chickenpox and Shingles
By Christine Miller , Health Expert...as likely to develop herpes zoster (also known as shingles) as people without RA. This large,... Read more »
Herpes Vaccine Underutilized
By Christina Lasich, MD , Health Expert...shingles, it most certainly reduces the severity of an outbreak because the immunized individual... Read more »
An Ounce of Prevention
By Will Rowe , Health Expert...a common, and sometimes horrific pain condition--shingles, and its sometimes consequence, post... Read more »
Should patients who have heart disease take vaccinations for flu, pneumonia, and shingles?
By Dr. Larry Weinrauch , Health Expert...consequences of shingles than it is in protecting outbreaks. With this vaccine, we do not know... Read more »
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...FamilyFlaviviridae (genus Flavivirus)U.S. Geographic AreasTakes its name from an epidemic in St. Louis, but outbreaks have occurred in wider geographic areas, especially in midwestern and... Read more »Herpes zoster
...disorder is common, with about 600,000 to one million cases in the U.S. per year. Most commonly, an outbreak of shingles is localized and involves only one dermatome. Widespread or recurrent... Read more »Shingles and Chickenpox (Varicella-Zoster Virus): Complications
...necrosis syndrome. In such cases, visual changes develop within weeks or months after the herpes zoster outbreak has resolved. Although this complication usually follows a herpes outbreak in the... Read more »Shingles and Chickenpox (Varicella-Zoster Virus): Symptoms
...stages occur:The first is known as the prodrome, a cluster of warning symptoms that appear before the outbreak of the infection.The second stage comprises the symptoms of the active infection... Read more »Shingles and Chickenpox (Varicella-Zoster Virus): Diagnosis
Both chickenpox (varicella) and shingles (zoster) can usually be diagnosed by symptoms alone. If a diagnosis is still unclear after a physical examination, diagnostic tests may be... Read more »Images
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