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.
It is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox: the varicella-zoster virus. The first sign of shingles is often burning or tingling pain, or sometimes numbness or an itch, in one particular location on only one side of the body. After several days, a shingles rash may appear.Shingles pain can be mild or intense. Some people have mostly itching; some feel pain from the gentlest touch or breeze. The most common location for this pain and its associated rash is a band, called a dermatome, spanning one side of the trunk around the waistline.ometimes, particularly in older people, shingles pain persists long after the rash has healed. This is known as postherpetic neuralgia. Postherpetic neuralgia can be mild or severe -- the most severe cases can lead to insomnia, weight loss, depression, and disability.