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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.
Shingles is an infection of the nerves and surrounding skin caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox, the herpes varicella-zoster virus. Shingles results in a rash that can be mildly itchy to intensely painful.The rash appears as raised dots that develop into blisters, then dry out and crust over.ymptoms of shingles include: 1  Pain or bruised feeling-usually on one side of your face or body-often along with a fever, chills, headache or upset stomach. 2  People will often feel unwell for several days before the rash appears.