Vaccination can also lower your chances of other serious shingles complications. For example, if it shows up on your face, ...

Chicken pox (varicella) is the disease people get when they are exposed to the varicella-zoster virus for the first time.

DEAR DR. ROACH: A few months ago, you wrote about the benefits of the shingles vaccine. At 63, I’m one of the 1% who has ...

Pugh says, “It can occur on your arms and legs and also on your face.” Anyone can get shingles, even children, but Pugh says the risk increases as you get older. “People most at risk for ...

When the virus is reactivated, it affects a nerve that it travels down, so the shingles rash will appear on the side of the affected nerve. So if you get it on your face, it will only affect ...

is a reactivation of the same virus that has been dormant in your body. It can sometimes happen decades later along one part of the body (called a dermatome), such as an arm or the lower half of the ...

J.C. Answer: I occasionally have come across your situation ... such as an arm or the lower half of the face. As you correctly state, you can’t get shingles until you’ve had chicken pox ...