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Writer's pictureMeka Satyanarayana
Jan 42 min read

Shingles Part III (Telugu)



Shingles also known as Herpes Zoster or Nagin. It is a painful, localized blistering skin rash, that typically develops on one side of the body or face. It is caused by the same varicella zoster virus which causes chicken pox. You cannot get shingles from someone who has shingles.

The word Herpes Zoster came from Greek. Herpes means “creep” and Zoster means waist or circle. The word Shingles came from Latin which means waist belt. Probably the way shingles erupts is the basis for the nomineclature. After a person got infected with chicken pox, usually in the childhood, the virus stays in the body and remains in an inactive or dormant form for several years or decades. Later, the in-active virus gets re-activated, if it gets favorable conditions, and causes Shingles. Most people who develop shingles only have it one time during their life time, however some immune deficient people may get recurrent shingles. A person with shingles can spread varicella -zoster virus to others. It is a sporadic disease and most patients have no history of recent exposure to other individuals with Chicken Pox. Recurrent Shingles is exceedingly rare except in hosts with poor and weakened immune system especially in HIV & AIDS patients, lymphoma like cancers and bone marrow transplant recipients.


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