Shingles Patients on the Rise in China as Doctors Warn of Post-COVID Trend

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Medical experts cite fatigue, stress, and weakened immunity as key factors behind a troubling national surge

Doctors warn: Shingles now striking younger adults​

Dr. Lin Zengmao, Associate Chief of Anesthesiology at Peking University First Hospital, said the highest incidence remains among people over 50, but cases among younger adults are growing. “Age and weakened immunity are still key risk factors,” said Dr. Lin, adding, “But due to fatigue, stress, and irregular sleep, we’re now seeing more young patients than before.”

He also noted that many describe the pain as “stabbing or burning.” Even after lesions heal, some patients develop persistent nerve pain — a complication known as “postherpetic neuralgia,” which can last for months, or even years after the initial blisters subside.

 

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“But due to fatigue, stress, and irregular sleep, we’re now seeing more young patients than before.”

Uh, I wonder if there's anything, or several things, that can cause those things besides, I guess that's the idea here, themselves. I guess those things must be happening for no reason, and thus explain their own existence by their own presence, in a "I am my own grandfather and it's not a paradox because I always was my own grandfather" kind of thing.

Ah, must be the fatigue, stress and irregular sleep fairies because those things have no other possible explanation than themselves and clearly have started, uh, whenever it is convenient for them to have started, or increased, or whatever.