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If you had chickenpox in childhood, the virus that caused it is still alive in your body and can reactivate later in life. It lives on in a dormant state in the neurons (nerve cells) that cluster in nerve enlargements called ganglia. If it suddenly awakens as you age, it can migrate down the nervesContinue reading “Ramsay Hunt Syndrome: Shingles in the ear”