From: unruh@invalid.ca   
      
   On 2013-02-25, 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.   
      
   For me it lasted about a month and then disappeared completely and has   
   never reoccured. But as I say, the dominant theory about shingles is   
   that it is a recurrence of a chicken pox infection. The virus stays   
   dormant for many years, and then for some reason (stress?) flares up but   
   moving along and infecting the nerves. It travells along specific nerve   
   trunks, so that the infection is strongly localised to one side of the   
   body and to one zone (serviced by a single nerve trunk).   
   My description above is of what the infection feels like.   
      
   >   
   > Cheers!   
   >   
   > jim b.   
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