Why does shingles hurt much more than chicken pox and why can’t the body get rid of the virus? Shouldn’t it be able to identify and destroy foreign microbes?

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Why does shingles hurt much more than chicken pox and why can’t the body get rid of the virus? Shouldn’t it be able to identify and destroy foreign microbes?

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It hides out in your nerve cells, evading immune response, and then years later replicates, giving you shingles. It’s painful because it’s infecting your nerves.

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