The side effects of a shingles vaccine are usually mild. Some, like a sore arm, will come on immediately ... However, if you ...

developed a rash on her back about a year and half ago. It wasn’t sore, and she had no idea what it was, so she visited a dermatologist. It turned out to be a mild case of shingles.

In Cantonese, shingles – a virus that causes a painful rash – is known as sang se, or “growing snakes”, because of the way the rash seems to creep like a snake under the skin.

Shingles is a funny-sounding name for a seriously painful disease. How painful? That’s hard to put into words. Printable ones ...