Hello, hello and welcome to episode 21 of the Physician

assistant boards.com podcast and today we're going to talk about Herpy Zoster

and this is so common and I've been seeing it so often lately I thought this would be a good topic to kind of go over.

Before we go ahead and get started, just a quick update on the website over at physician assistant boards.com.

I should be finishing the end of chronology section by the end of this week that is the goal

After we go ahead and finish the end of chronology section I'll be starting on neurology and so we're getting closer to the finish of wrapping up the pants blueprint to really give you guys all of that information that you need.

I'm really just trying to do the highlights. I'm trying to do high-yield facts, what you guys need to know to really pass the boards,

and even to pass your exams.

So don't think of this as just Pants review.

This will be helpful or extremely helpful for your exam review as well. If you guys have any questions please do not hesitate to

email me. My email address is Andrew Reed at position assistant boards.com and

that's Reed REID. Again, I really appreciate all of the emails

that I've been receiving lately

and all of the good feedback.

But I always appreciate comments for improvement

because like I feel, everything can always be better. so really I'm trying to tailor this to

what you guys really want and what you guys want to hear so that we can get the

best experience for both you and for me as well.

All right guys so let's get started with Herpy Zoster. So Herpy Zoster, this is one virus. The virus is called

Veracelizoster virus, but it causes two distinct clinical presentations, right? So normally you

get chicken pox when you're a little kid and then the

chicken pox goes away, the virus lays dormant and then reactivates later on in life usually

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