Medically reviewed by William Truswell, MD You can develop shingles on the face. The rash looks like a group of small ...

Shingles are caused by the varicella-zoster virus, which remains dormant in nerves after chickenpox and can reactivate later ...

A friend asked for a column on shingles. Shingles is a reactivation of the varicella zoster virus that causes chickenpox, and ...

It may cause burning pain, itching ... in your body for years after chickenpox resolves. If it reactivates, the virus travels down your nerve pathways and causes shingles symptoms.

After an individual recovers from chickenpox (which they usually caught as a child), the varicella-zoster virus which causes chickenpox continues to live in some of their nerve cells ... the symptoms ...