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What is shingles?
Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is an outbreak of rash or blisters on the skin caused by the varicella zoster virus, the same virus that causes chickenpox. After chickenpox, the virus can stay quiet, or dormant, in a patient's nerve tissue for years and can flare up again as shingles1.
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