Adults with shingles are at increased risk of a stroke, and those with shingles that affects the eyes has 4 times the risk of stroke within a year of the shingles episode, a study shows.

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Magnified 49, 200x, this transmission electron micrograph (TEM) depicts numbers of cytomegalovirus virions that were present in an unknown tissue sample. Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is one of the herpesviruses. This group of viruses includes the herpes simplex viruses (HSV), varicella-zoster virus (VZV), which causes chickenpox and shingles, and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), which causes infectious mononucleosis, also known as mono.  Photo credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Shingles is an aggressive, serious illness caused by the same virus responsible for chickenpox, a common and usually benign disease.

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