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What you need to know about shingles treatment and prevention

December 2022

Carmen Pope

Thursday 1 December 2022, 01:45 AM
Shingles rash
[Image: Heng Dao – iStock.com]

TOMMY COMES UP to you at the counter and pulls up his shirt to reveal a nasty-looking rash on one side of his torso. He said he had COVID-19 two weeks ago and wants to know if the rash could be related to that.

Shingles is a very common viral infection, affecting one in three people in their lifetime, with a 50 per cent risk of developing shingles in those ag
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