Naeem Raza, Nasser Rashid Dar, Amer Ejaz.
Simultaneous onset of herpes zoster in a father and son.
J Ayub Med Coll Abottabad Jan ;18(1):64-5.

The Varicella Zoster virus persists in sensory nerve ganglion cells after chicken pox and gets reactivated to cause herpes zoster after variable periods of time as a result of waning of specific cellular immunity. Susceptible contacts of herpes zoster can develop chicken pox and very rarely herpes zoster. We report an interesting case of a father and his son who developed herpes zoster simultaneously without any obvious common predisposition and discuss the possible underlying mechanism.

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