{"id":10114,"date":"2025-12-07T14:04:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10114"},"modified":"2025-12-08T16:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T10:43:04","slug":"shingles-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/shingles-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Shingles Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Shingles Disease Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent study found that Shingles vaccine reduces risk of death from dementia.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Shingles Disease<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shingles is a <\/span><b>viral infection<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that causes a painful rash.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Cause:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is caused by the <\/span><b>varicella-zoster virus<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 the same virus that causes chickenpox.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a person recovers from chickenpox, the virus remains dormant in the nerve cells and can reactivate years later, especially when the immune system is weakened due to age, illness, or immunosuppressive medications.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Symptoms of Shingles<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shingles typically <\/span><b>presents as a painful rash,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> often forming a stripe of blisters on one side of the torso, neck, or face.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other symptoms may include <\/span><b>itching, tingling, burning<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, headache, fever, and sensitivity to light or touch.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Transmission:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is <\/span><b>not contagious,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> but the virus can be spread to someone who has never had chickenpox.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is most <\/span><b>common in people over 50<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or those with weakened immune systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Treatment:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> There is a vaccine <\/span><b>called Shingrix available<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which helps in preventing shingles and its complications.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/shingles-vaccine-reduces-risk-of-death-from-dementia-study-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DD News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shingles is a viral infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus, resulting in painful skin rashes and nerve discomfort. Read more about Shingles Disease: Causes, Symptoms, Transmission, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,488,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-10114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-shingles-disease","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}