There are two species of elephant seals in the world, the Northern Elephant Seal that is found in the eastern and northern Pacific Ocean and the Southern Elephant seal that is found almost circumpolar around Antarctica. Elephant seal pups are born in the Antarctic spring.
Definition. Shingles is a viral infection that causes a painful rash. Although shingles can occur anywhere on your body, it most often appears as a single stripe of blisters that wraps around either the left or the right side of your torso.Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus â the same virus that causes chickenpox.After you've had chickenpox, the virus lies inactive in nerve tissue near your spinal cord and brain. Years later, the virus may reactivate as shingles. While it isn't a life-threatening condition, shingles can be very painful.lthough shingles can occur anywhere on your body, it most often appears as a single stripe of blisters that wraps around either the left or the right side of your torso. Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus â the same virus that causes chickenpox.
Years after an episode of chickenpox, VZV can become reactivated, causing shingles. Typically, shingles appears as a painful rash along a band of skin (dermatome) supplied by a single nerve root. Most cases of shingles occur in people over the age of 50.