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shingle bob, a short hairstyle for women in the mid 1920s
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suggest that incidence of shingles is linked to the reduced frequency of periodic exogenous (outside) exposures to children with varicella (chickenpox) due to the increasing vaccination of that population.
Shingles incidence is high in the elderly (over 60), as well as in any age group of immunocompromised patients.
Shingles on the upper half of the face (the first branch of the trigeminal nerve) may result in eye damage and require urgent ophthalmological assessment.
Shingles or Herpes Zoster, disorder in which a rash of small blisters develops on the skin.
Shingles is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, the same virus that causes chicken pox.
While the exact cause of shingles is not understood, scientists theorize that during an attack of chicken pox, the virus may invade large clusters of neurons (nerve cells) found on either side of the spinal cord.