[Empire_of_Liberty]

The alternative is a 28-year-old with shingles? Something doesn’t sound right.

[RummyChick]

this could be the more palatable explanation to cover what might have happened...or...he really could have it.

There has some interesting gossip about someone north of the border freaked out that he had gotten monkey pox.

It has been circulating for a few weeks.

Bieber might be the celebrity it was referencing.

[crz]

Shingles? My nephew had them when he was 43...BAD. My niece, his sister, had them when she was just under 40 years old.

All my siblings had them..evey one of them. Except for me. I never caught the chicken pox, or the measles.

Why? I do not know. But I got something out of all of it. COPD that developed from chronic lifetime asthma

[packrat35]

I had shingles at age 21.

[Rockingham]

Although common in the elderly, shingles sometimes afflicts the young due to a wide range of causes. Bieber likely has something awry with his immune system, plausibly due to severe stress, an untreated gastrointestinal malabsorption syndrome like celiac disease, a dietary insufficiency of a key immune nutrient like Vitamin D, or he may have a greater need for Vitamin D due to injury or a prescription drug that depletes the body's store of it.

Or, as is often the case with atypical manifestations of shingles, no cause is apparent and it is thought that a mutation of the chicken pox virus (herpes zoster, a/k/a varicella zoster) may permit it to evade the body's defenses.