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Biology 202
2003 Second Web Paper
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Biology 202
2000 First Web Report
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Biology 103
2000 Second Web Report
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Biology 202
2004 First Web Paper
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Biology 202
1999 First Web Reports
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Biology 202
1999 First Web Reports
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Biology 202
1999 First Web Reports
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Biology 103
2000 Second Web Report
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Allison Hayes-Conroy

Shingles, or Herpes Zoster, is an infectious disease that effects nearly twenty percent of the US population at some point in their lives. Resulting from a reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus (the same virus that causes Chicken Pox) shingles plagues the skin and nervous tissues. Often, the disease is very painful and although the skin blisters that result generally heal in a mere one to three weeks, severe nerve pain can last months to years (1). The treatment of this nerve pain, as well as of the shingles blisters, is the focus of this paper. For the sufferers of such a disease with no known cure, the discovery of treatments from both eastern and western medical traditions which can help alleviate the symptoms is paramount.

Biology 202
1998 Third Web Reports
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