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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