From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com
On 02/25/2013 01:48 PM, Jim Beard wrote:
> 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.
>
Shingles can repeat on you especially if you cannot learn
to control emotions which stimulate the nervous system and help
cause the outbreaks. The virus continues to survive usually dormant
after a childhood illness of chicken pox and is as noted quite
painful. My outbreak was over quickly and since then I have had
a shingles vaccination.
bliss
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