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If you’re aged over sixteen, you may well remember having chickenpox as a child. Or maybe you remember an older sibling having the disease. Before 1995, chickenpox was considered a minor, if somewhat distressing disease. Most children caught it at some stage and made a full and lasting recovery. Then, in 1995, a vaccine [...] Herpes Zoster is a recurrence of the chickenpox virus which, like HSV-1 and HSV-2 can linger in the body for a lifetime. Shingles symptoms normally start with a visible and painful or tingling rash on the face or body. Research recently published in Stroke reveals adults infected with shingles (herpes zoster) present a 30 percent greater risk of stroke than adults who have not been so infected. The risk becomes even higher if shingles has affected the area around the eyes. [...] Recent research in California published in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal indicates that the incidence of shingles (herpes zoster) may be reduced in children who have been vaccinated against chickenpox (varicella) Children under ten who had been vaccinated were found to have significantly fewer shingles infections than those who had not. Shingles infection in [...] |
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