Question

An sixty-year-old man has painful fluid-filled vesicles that have begun crusting over in a wide band across the left side of his lumbar area. He has a history of chickenpox. Based on this information, the likely disease is which is caused by:________
a. scabies, Pediculosis humanus
b. fever blisters, HSV-1
c. impetigo, Staphylococcus aureus
d. German measles, Rubella
e. shingles, varicella-zoster virus

Answer 1

Answer: shingles, varicella-zoster virus

Explanation:

It should be noted that shingles usually occur with old people and it causes a painful rash when the chicken pox virus is reactivated in the body.

Since the man is old and has painful fluid-filled vesicles that have begun crusting over in a wide band across the left side of his lumbar area and also has a history of chickenpox, it's very likely it is shingles.