Question

After a person recovers from the chickenpox, the virus can lie dormant in the dorsal root ganglion in multiple levels of the spinal cord and cranial nerves. Later in life, the virus can be reactivated and travel within a sensory neuron to cause shingles. Do          you think it is possible to get shingles more than once?             

Why or why not?

Answer 1

Shingles are likely to return in a different part of the body. The rash is most common on the torso or face. E.g. If it is on the right side of stomach, it might come back on the left side or on face, chest, neck or back.

Shingles virus has the capacity to reactivate. They sleep in the body. When the virus reactivates, the infected nerves become inflamed that supplies the skin. This cause a burning or stabbing pain. After causing shingles, the virus again goes back to sleep inside the nerves. The viruses then flare up again.