The Hidden Health Issues of Senator Feinstein.

Senator Dianne Feinstein was hospitalized for severe neurological complications of shingles that affected her brain and face. Although the encephalitis resolved itself shortly after she was released from the hospital in March, she continues to have complications from Ramsay Hunt syndrome. Ramsay Hunt syndrome is a rare neurological complication of shingles that classically occurs in adults over 60 years old. Encephalitis is when the brain gets inflamed, and it can be caused by infections, often due to a virus or to inflammatory conditions in which the body’s immune system attacks the brain.