Photo by Allan Saganash. Although the word is related to scarring â something youâd think weâd want to avoid â soil scarification [pronounced scare-ification] is a legitimate silvicultural technique that is sometimes necessary for regenerating native trees.
You cannot get shingles from another person. Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox. After you have chickenpox as a child, the virus lies dormant in your nervous system.Sometimes, for reasons not entirely understood, the virus is activated, causing shingles.hingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox. After you have chickenpox as a child, the virus lies dormant in your nervous system. Sometimes, for reasons not entirely understood, the virus is activated, causing shingles.
Although you cannot get shingles from someone else, people with. shingles can spread the chickenpox virus to others. Someone who has not. had chickenpox can get chickenpox if they have close contact with a. person who has shingles. This is why we place patients with shingles in. airborne and contact precautions. People whose immune systems are weakened from illness or certain. medicines can get disseminated Herpes zoster, a disease similar to. chickenpox. This handout describes. shingles (Herpes zoster) and its symptoms.