The Sick, Sad World of Cells at Work: CODE BLACK - This Week in Anime
Jean-Karlo Nicky, this weekend wasn't great for me. I had to go to the hospital this Saturday because I came down with Shingles. See, Shingles is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox. If you had chickenpox as a kid, you're inoculated against getting it a second time, but the virus is still in you, laying dormant somewhere in your nervous system. Once you hit your sixties—or if you're an adult living under a particular amount of stress—you are vulnerable to an outbreak of the virus, which causes painful, itchy blisters to break out somewhere on your body that corresponds to wher...