Shingles (Herpes Zoster) is the term given to a painful viral infection, which affects the nervous system and is caused by a virus named Varicella Zoster. This is the same virus that leads to chicken pox infection in children.  Shingles occurs in adults but is not a result of direct infection.
If you had chicken pox as a child or were inoculated against it, after you recover, the virus remains dormant and migrates to the nervous tissue of your skin.
The Varicella Zoster virus can remain hidden for many years without causing …