> Someone I know who *did* once get Shingles had the classic symptoms: an intense 'shooting' pain down one arm (and sometimes down one side of the body), and skin blistering in the same area. It was extremely painful for him, and I'm glad we didn't get that.

I looked it up in my Norwegian-English dictionary, and found that I was right in my suspicion that this is the English name for what we call "hellfire" (direct translation). My grandmother had that once. Pretty fitting name, I suppose.

Trav"had chicken pox at the age of 22, didn't suffer much"holt