Shingles in Older Adults: Herpes Zoster Virus Research

Shingles in Adults
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Shingles in Adults
In every group of three people, within the United States, one of them will develop shingles at one time in their lifetime. Shingles is also known as Zoster or in other words herpes zoster ("Shingles-Topic Overview", 2016). In American alone there is an estimated one million cases of the disease annually. While the disease can affect anyone including children, it is the older adults that are at a higher risk of developing the disease. It is a disease that largely caused by the Varicella zoster virus ("Shingles-Topic Overview", 2016).
In a research by Tae Joon Lee, MD, CMD, Stella Hayes, MD, Doyle M. Cummings, PharmD, Qing Cao, MD, Kristin Carpenter, Leah Heim and Hollie Edwards, in which they evaluate the knowledge, prevalence and the vaccination rates by race, reveals some intriguing elements (Joon Lee et al., 2013). The survey evaluated participants in three university based primary clinics, where patients who were more than 60 years of age were involved (Joon Lee et al., 2013). The participants gave information on their history with shingles, age, sex, race and level of education. From the study which had 403 ...