Her two children, aged 8 and 4, had just been through bouts of chickenpox.
Shingles (also called herpes zoster) occurs when a person's past chickenpox infection is reactivated.
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As with chickenpox, the blisters turn into crusty scabs before healing after about a week or two.
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Postherpetic neuralgia (post-her-PET-ic noo-RAL-jah) is a complication of shingles, which is caused by the chickenpox (herpes zoster) virus.
But, he argues, chickenpox and measles can both still be very serious diseases, particularly if there are complications.
It turns out that the best way to stop the spread of chickenpox may be right out in your backyard.
There is also a chickenpox vaccine, given to children, which is at least 70 percent effective in preventing chickenpox infection.
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The chickenpox virus (called varicella zoster virus) remains inactive within the nervous system but may show up as shingles in about 20 percent of people.
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Dr Phil Rice told the press last week he hopes his findings will lead to new ways to prevent chickenpox and its more severe cousin, shingles.
If you have not had chickenpox before, you can catch it from someone with shingles but it is not possible to catch shingles itself from someone with the condition.
Because vaccination programs have been so successful, very few people know someone who had polio, and a lot of parents of young children never even had chickenpox, he says.
She's got the chickenpox and remains hospitalized more than a week after going in after falling and hitting her head at a pre-inaugural party in Washington on Jan. 19.
Dr Fenella Kirkham, reader in paediatric neurology at the Institute of Child Health, London, said that childhood stroke had been linked to episodes of chickenpox, although this had not been the case with Jacob.
The idea that ultraviolet (UV) rays can inactivate viruses is not new, but this is the first time that such firm conclusions have been made in connection with the varicella-zoster virus, the herpes virus responsible for chickenpox and shingles.
Shingles is most common in people over age 50 and those who have a weakened immune system, but anyone at any age who has ever had chickenpox (even if it was such a mild infection that they don't know that they had it) can get shingles.
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Writing about his work earlier this year in Virology Journal, Rice shows how chickenpox is much less common in parts of the world with high levels of UV rays compared with places where the levels are low, and why in temperate zones, the disease peaks in winter and spring, when UV rays are at their lowest.
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