Once the rash crusts you are no longer infectious.
Can shingles spread on your body.
Although shingles can occur anywhere on your body it most often appears as a single stripe of blisters that wraps around either the left or the right side of your torso.
Vzv from a person with shingles is less contagious than the virus from someone with chickenpox.
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A person with active shingles can spread the virus when the rash is in the blister phase.
You are not infectious before the blisters appear.
However you can get the disease more than once.
It usually shows up on just one side of your body.
Shingles is caused by the varicella zoster virus the same virus that causes chickenpox.
These complications of the disease are sometimes referred to as internal shingles or systemic.
Shingles is a rash with shooting pain.
The virus is kept in check by your immune system but as you get older and your immune system is weaker you can break out in shingles in a localized region of your body says brian kim md a.