and she developed blisters on one finger. The clinic swabbed the blisters, and she was diagnosed with herpetic whitlow. More from LittleThings: Woman's Scary Salon Experience Is A Cautionary Tale ...

Herpetic whitlow is a painful cutaneous infection ... It usually affects the distal phalanx of the fingers near the fingernails; the disease will affect the toes occasionally.

The results came back positive for herpetic whitlow, a viral infection caused ... blisters continued to appear on her already infected finger — as well as an additional finger — despite ...