shingles is a condition characterized by pain discoloration and eruption of skin blisters along sensory nerve.
Shingles is the reactivation of a viral infection in the nerves to the skin that causes pain, burning, or a tingling sensation, along with an itch and blisters in the skin supplied by the affected nerve. It is caused by the varicella zoster virus[1] , or VZVâthe same virus that causes chickenpox.erpes zoster âthe medical term for shingles; an infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus, one of the herpesviruses family of viruses. herpes simplex âthe medical term for a related but different virus that causes repeated mild blisters of the skin or mucous membrane.