What Is the Epidemiological Significance of Shingles

question 6

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 who had ever had 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 who had ever contracted the illness have died.

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