Magnate
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Queens, NY
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Magnate
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Queens, NY
Posts: 2,857
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Who said--
--shingles can only appear on one side of the body?
The rash does tend to follow the path of nerve dermatomes, as the virus takes up permanent resident in neural ganglia, but it can be in many gnaglia and be quite widespread.
On the other hand, one can do blood tests to see if such a herpes varicella infection has reactivated. If those are negative, shingles is unlikely.
Last edited by glenntaj; 03-13-2010 at 06:52 AM.
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