Historical Examples. 1  Then he crept out of the room, got on the mare, and rode up the pike. 2  And saying this he stabbed him with his pike in the face, and the blood spurted forth. 3  But far eastward on the pike there slowly developed a soft, white haze. 4  Quite and clane the contraryâwhen the shillelah's up, the pike's down.
Shingles is most common in people over the age of 50, about half of all cases occur in men and woman age 60 years and older. The risk of disease increases as a person gets older but the virus may reappear in people of all ages who have previously had chickenpox. 4.
If you had chickenpox as a child, the virus hasnât completely gone away. It hides dormant in your body and can reemerge many years later as shingles. There are about 1 million cases of shingles each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). About half of these cases occur among people over the age of 60.