Unlike chickenpox, shingles is not contagious, but it does cause painful symptoms such as headache, sensitivity to light, rashes, blistering, and trouble thinking clearly. There is no cure for shingles, but there are treatments that can reduce the pain and symptoms associated with it, including medical marijuana.
On November 21, 1963, Robert Stroud died at the Springfield Medical Center at the age of 73, having been incarcerated for the last 54 years of his life, of which 42 were spent in solitary confinement. He had been studying French near the end of his life. Stroud is buried in Metropolis, Illinois (Massac County).
Monday 12 September 2011 04.57 EDT First published on Monday 12 September 2011 04.57 EDT. Andy Whitfield, the Welsh-born actor who played the lead role in the TV series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, has died at age 39.