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shingles
Also called herpes zoster, a viral disease characterized by development of pain, a vesicular rash and later scarring, often with persistent pain, over the skin of part of the face or trunk. The virus seems to settle in or near nerve cells following chickenpox, which is caused by the same virus, and then becomes activated, perhaps years later and sometimes by disease. It then leads to acute skin eruption which is in the distribution of the nerve involves.
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