Bar-Ilan (Israel): Model Mimics How Dormant Infections Caused by Childhood Chicken Pox Can – Decades Later – Trigger the “Rude Awakening” of Shingles

The red, itchy rash caused by varicella-zoster – the virus that causes chickenpox – usually disappears within a week or two. But once infection occurs, the varicella-zoster virus, or VZV, remains dormant in the nervous system, awaiting a signal that…