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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.
10 Signs & Symptoms of Shingles. By: RMshingles on March 29, 2015. Shingles is a very common disease that often affects adults over the ago of 50 years old. Routed by the Varicella-Zoster virus, the illness typically starts in the form of chicken pox as a child, then redevelops as an adult in the form of the shingles virus. How fun, to have the same virus making your sick not once, but twice in your lifetime, right?