Yersinia wrote:
> John Gentile writes,
>> <Some of these like the Herpes family can set up residence in our body
> with little knowledge of the host. They
> usually just sit there being pretty dormant until at some point they
> decide to emerge. Cold sores and the skin rash of Shingles are a couple of
> examples.>
>> Is my memory bad, or what? Cold sores and Herpes Simplex I, yes, but I
> thought shingles (a disease of older people) was caused by varicella
> zoster virus, the same one that causes chicken pox in children.
>> ~Yersinia.
Varicella is one of the Herpes viruses.
Also called Herpes zoster
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