whenever a celebrity goes public about suffering from any kind of ailment trends and related queries on the topic see a significant jump as people start looking up symptoms and causes of the disorder leading to more awareness about the diseasejustin bieber recently shared a video on social media to inform his fans that he has ramsay hunt syndrome and there are about 86700000 search results on the topic till now as soon as justin shared the news about his illness wishes started pouring in from his fans also increasing the number of searches for the disease ramsay hunt syndrome facial nerve paralysis and justin bieber facial paralysis were among 10 such related queries this is not the first time when an international celebrity has come out in the open to speak about hisher illness from angelina jolie talking about suffering from bells palsy to billie eilish revealing that she has tourette syndrome whenever a celeb has spoken about their illness it has often garnered a huge interest among their fans as opposed to when they lend their support to an ailmentjustin bieber recently shared a video on social media to inform his fans that he has ramsay hunt syndromejustin bieber ramsay hunt syndromein a video shared on his official instagram page the singer revealed the reason why he has cancelled some of his shows as part of the justice tour i have this syndrome called ramsay hunt syndrome and it is from this virus that attacks the nerve in my ear my facial nerves and has caused my face to have paralysis as you can see this eye is not blinking i cant smile on this side of my face this nostril will not move so theres full paralysis on this side of my face so for those who are frustrated by my cancellations of the next shows i am just physically obviously not capable of doing them this is pretty serious as you can see shared the singer with his fanswhat people searched justin bieber facial paralysis chickenpox paralysis justin bieber facial paralysiswhat is ramsay hunt syndromeramsay hunt syndrome also called herpes zoster oticus is a major otological earrelated complication of varicella zoster virus reactivation it is a painful rash around the ear on the face or on the mouth it occurs when the varicella zoster virus infects a nerve in the head says dr neha kapoor sr consultant head unit i neurology asian institute of medical sciences faridabad dr vipasha brajpuriya senior consultant unit head ent accord superspeciality hospital faridabad adds in this the facial nerve near the inner ear gets infected leading to irritation and swelling of the nerve the virus belongs to the herpesvirus group and the virus also causes chickenpox classic symptoms of this disease include severe pain in the ear rashes around parts of ear tongue and infected side of the mouth in some cases it can even cause hearing loss spinning feeling contorted faces and even paralysisjada had first opened