Quick Answer. While the incidence rate of herpes zoster, commonly known as shingles, is 1 million cases annually in the United States, shingles is the underlying cause of death for only 96 Americans annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Almost all deaths occurred in elderly or immunosuppressed people.
The Greater Tampa Bay Area is the region of west central Florida adjacent to Tampa Bay. It is often considered equivalent to the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Metropolitan Statistical Area defined by the United States Census Bureau.
The term Tampa Bay is sometimes used as shorthand to refer to all or parts of the Tampa Bay area, which comprises many towns and cities in several counties surrounding the large body of water.