(Emilie Ritter Saunders / Boise State Public Radio)

Shingles are painful rashes that can be accompanied by fevers, headaches and nausea. It is virally transmitted with the chicken pox virus and can lie dormant in the body for years. The latest CDC-approved shingles vaccine is in short supply throughout the nation and on Idaho Matters, we speak with Laura McGeorge, a doctor of internal medicine with St. Luke's about an infection that impacts one in three Americans.