From: jdbeard@patriot.net   
      
   On 02/25/2013 04:44 PM, unruh wrote:   
   > On 2013-02-25, Jim Beard  wrote:   
   >> On 02/25/2013 03:04 PM, Moe Trin wrote:   
   >>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in   
   article   
   >>> , TJ wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Moe Trin wrote:   
   >>>   
   > ...   
   >>>   
   >>> Another one getting big play here is the 'shingles' vaccine.   
   >>   
   >> If they get an outbreak in an area, they flog the vaccine hard.   
   >> It normally is so rare that it probably is not worth the effort   
   >> of mass vaccination, but with a few cases around that people can   
   >> point to among their friends (shingles is nasty, even though   
   >> rarely permanently damaging) they will go for it.   
   >   
   > Shingles is not particularly catching AFAIK. It is another outbreak of the   
   > chickenpox that the person got earlier in life, went dormant in the   
   > roots of the nerves and then, for some reason, burst out again. I got it   
   > about 40 years ago. It is a bizarre feeling, as the pain along a nerve   
   > ramps up over a few minutes to quite intense, and then will suddenly (   
   > within a second) switch off completely, and the cycle repeats.   
      
   This sounds like there may be more permanance to the damage than   
   I was aware of.  An aunt of mine came down with shingles, and had   
   a devil of a time for 2 or 3 months, and then recovered. No   
   continuing problems. My understanding was this was typical.   
      
   Cheers!   
      
   jim b.   
      
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