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? asked in HealthDiseases & ConditionsSkin Conditions · 6 years ago

What causes shingles?

This is absolutely miserable. I've been told it isn't common until age 60.

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  • Ross
    Lv 4
    6 years ago

    its a kind of chicken pox caused by a virus I think. More common with people over 60 but anyone can get it.

  • anonymous
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Shingles is a reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus, a type of herpes virus that causes chickenpox. After you have had chickenpox, the virus lies inactive in your nerve roots and remains inactive until, in some people, it flares up again.

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