Contracting shingles, a reactivation of the chickenpox virus, increases a person’s risk of stroke and heart attack, according to a research letter published In July 2017 in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. A release from the publishers notes that according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, almost one out of… Continue reading Shingles Increases the Risk of Heart Attack & Stroke
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Hope for Preventing Shingles
In a study published in PLOS Pathogens in June 2015, scientists at Bar-Ilan University in Israel report on a novel experimental model that, for the first time, successfully mimics the “sleeping” and “waking” of the varicella-zoster virus. The red, itchy rash caused by varicella-zoster, chickenpox virus usually disappears within a week or two. Yet once… Continue reading Hope for Preventing Shingles