What Is the Epidemiological Significance of Shingles

question 34

Multiple Choice

What is the epidemiological significance of shingles?

• A) It shows that, as a latent viral infection, there is always a possible reservoir available to reinfect new susceptible individuals.
• B) It shows that we must always be vigilant against this deadly and highly infectious secondary infection in elderly and immunocompromised individuals.
• C) It shows that, as a chronic viral infection, individuals infected are always infectious to others around them, even when they do not show outward symptoms.
• D) It shows that our fight for long-term eradication of varicella zoster virus will be a very long fight, depending on immunizing all newly-born individuals until all the people that had ever contracted the illness have died.
• E) It shows that, as a latent viral infection, there is always a possible reservoir available to reinfect new susceptible individuals AND it shows that our fight for long-term eradication of varicella zoster virus will be a very long fight, depending on immunizing all newly-born individuals until all the people that had ever contracted the illness have died.

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