can you carry chickenpox if you've had it before?
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If you didn't have chickenpox when you were a child, you can catch it as an adult if you're exposed to the virus. But once you've had chickenpox, you're very unlikely to catch it again. About nine out of 10 adults are immune because they caught chickenpox when they were a child.
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Anyone who's had chickenpox may develop shingles. After you recover from chickenpox, the virus can enter your nervous system and lie dormant for years. Eventually, it may reactivate and travel along nerve pathways to your skin — producing shingles.
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It is safe to be around infants and young children, pregnant women, or people with weakened immune systems after you get the shingles vaccine. There is no documentation of a person getting chickenpox from someone who has received the shingles vaccine (which contains varicella zoster virus).
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Even if you had chicken pox in the past, you can still contract shingles. That's because the chicken-pox virus remains in the body, lying dormant in the roots of nerves, and can reactivate many years later.
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Anyone who has had chickenpox in the past can develop shingles; even children can get shingles. Shingles cannot be passed from one person to another.
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Chickenpox can be very severe or even life-threatening to babies in the first month of life, to adolescents and adults, and to anyone who has a weak immune system. Children with chickenpox can get pneumonia (infection of the lungs) or get inflammation of the brain.
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You cannot get shingles from someone with chickenpox When people get chickenpox, the virus remains in the body.
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Most people who get chickenpox vaccine will not get chickenpox. However, because chickenpox vaccine is made from a live, but weakened form of the chickenpox virus, there is a small risk of getting chickenpox after the vaccine.
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Yes, you do. Shingrix recommended for everyone age 50 and older, whether or not you remember having had chickenpox, because most people have been exposed to the virus.
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Not everyone who has chickenpox ends up developing shingles–but you can't get shingles if you didn't have chickenpox first.
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You cannot get shingles from someone with chickenpox When people get chickenpox, the virus remains in the body. It can be reactivated later and cause shingles if someone's immune system is lowered.
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You can only get shingles if you've already had chickenpox. Shingles can develop in anyone who has had chickenpox. If you haven't had chickenpox but are exposed to someone with chickenpox or shingles, regardless of your age, you will develop chickenpox first.
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The chickenpox virus You may not get chickenpox twice, but VZV could make you sick twice. Once you've had chickenpox, the virus remains inactive in your nerve tissue. Although it's unlikely you will get chickenpox again, the virus may reactivate later in life and cause a related condition called shingles.
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Is Chickenpox Contagious? Chickenpox is very contagious. Most kids with a sibling who's infected also will get it (if they haven't already had the infection or the vaccine), showing symptoms about 2 weeks after the first child does.
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If you or your child has been exposed to someone with chickenpox or shingles, call your healthcare provider immediately and ask what you should do. The varicella vaccine can be given, even after being exposed to the virus.
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Shingles cannot be passed from one person to another. The virus that causes shingles, varicella zoster virus (VZV) can spread from a person with active shingles and cause chickenpox in someone who had never had chickenpox or received chickenpox vaccine.
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Thanks for your question. You are correct that chickenpox (also called varicella) does still exist, both in the United States and all over the world. The chickenpox vaccine was introduced in 1995 in the United States.