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NINDS Shingles Information Page
Description
Publication Year: 2011
Language: English
Website: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/shingles/shingles.htm
This online publication reviews the description, prognosis and treatments for shingles. Shingles is an infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus, which is the virus that causes chickenpox. Shingles occurs in people who have had chickenpox and represents a reactivation of the dormant varicella-zoster virus.
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National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, HHS
P.O. Box 5801
Bethesda MD 20824
Phone: (301) 468-5981 TTY
Toll-free Phone: (800) 352-9424 EN/SP
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