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If a doctor suspects chest pains may be coming from nerve endings in the chest wall, possibly caused by a virus, what sort of virus might that be?
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Chicken pox: The virus that causes chicken pox becomes dormant after you recover. During this time the virus remains along nerves. Sometimes the virus can reactivate causing a painful rash along the pathway of the nerve. This is also called shingles. The virus is called varicella zoster.
Answered 3/26/2013
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Pleurisy: What you are describing is pleurisy, and can be caused by a number of viruses, including influenza, parainfluenza, ebv, cmv, among others.
Answered 9/28/2016
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