Why Patients Aren’t Getting the Shingles Vaccine
Labels: chicken pox virus, postherpetic neuralagia, shingles, shingles vaccine, vaccine
Shingles and its painful complication, called postherpetic neuralgia, result from reactivation of the chicken pox virus, which remains in the body after a childhood bout and is usually dormant in the adult. Up to a third of all adults who have had chicken pox will eventually develop one or both of these conditions, becoming debilitated for anywhere from a week to several years. More...