Dr. Barbara Yawn, Director of Research at Olmsted Medical Center in Rochester, MN, and one of the Study Coordinator for the Rochester Epidemiology Project, reviews her article appearing in the June 2013 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, covering an overall 9% Herpes Zoster eye complication rate in that population between 1980 and 2011 of which about 6% resulted in permanent vision loss. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/cbkjj4a