Blog: virus

Chicken Pox Strikes Again! Shingles is a painful condition caused by the varicella-zoster virus — the same virus that causes chickenpox. The virus can lie dormant in the nervous system for years and reactivate due to stress or other factors. The virus infects nerves and travels through nerve pathways to manifest on the skin as a painful rash.

As the cold and flu season descend upon us, everyone is worried about sinus infections….Sinus infections, or sinusitis as it is technically called, are caused by a viral or bacterial infection (i.e. a cold, virus or flu).