Shingles can be hard to diagnose, especially if you’re younger—in part because people don’t expect younger adults to get it. That said, being told you have the viral infection and not a random rash ...

The risk of shingles jumps 11-fold after the first dose of the recombinant shingles vaccine, marketed under the name name Shingrix, but decreases by 73% after the second, according to the results of a ...

Mayo Clinic reports that there is no cure for shingles. It can occur in people who have had varicella (chickenpox) since it is a reactivation of the same virus. Shingles is only contagious through ...

A: Shingles, the painful and blistery rash that arises when the chickenpox virus becomes reactivated, can be contagious, but only for people who are not already immune to chickenpox. Those who have ...