Clinical tips: Shingles (herpes zoster)

Pharmacists can have a significant role to play in helping people manage shingles, writes Louis Roller Shingles (also known as herpes zoster) is a viral infection caused by a reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus (VZV) that causes chickenpox (varicella). When someone first becomes infected with VZV, they will contract chickenpox. However, after chickenpox resolves, the virus will stay dormant in the dorsal