Shingles-The Disease on Par with Chicken Pox!

Shingles is a disease that is caused by the virus called varicella zoster; the virus is also the cause of chicken pox.

• Shingles are not contagious and will most likely affect people 50 years or older of age because of their weak immune systems.


• The symptoms are sometimes mistaken for another illness, and they feel a shooting pain, or some kind of burning, numbness, tingling, or itching in one area of the body, or face.

• Rashes and blisters could cause an outbreak, but outbreaks could occur without the rashes or blisters.