Shingles symptoms may be caused by neuronal short circuit

Tuesday, September 10, 2013 - 18:30 in Health & Medicine

The pain and itching associated with shingles and herpes may be due to the virus causing a “short circuit” in the nerve cells that reach the skin, Princeton researchers have found. This short circuit...

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