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A million more people can now get the shingles vaccine. Here's why you need it
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Shingles is a painful blistering rash caused by the re-emergence of the varicella-zoster virus responsible for chickenpox. Typically you catch chickenpox as a child (as 95 per cent of us do) and make a full recovery, but you never eliminate the virus. Rather it lies dormant in the nerves of your spine waiting to stage a comeback decades later when your immunity has waned with the passage of time or been impaired by illness.
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