can you catch shingles if you are immune to chickenpox?
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Shingles is most common in those over 50 but can happen at any age. Shingles cannot be 'caught' in the same way as chickenpox; you can only develop shingles if you have had chickenpox before. It is more common in people with low immunity and those taking medications that supress their immune systems.
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Can You Get Shingles if You Haven't Had Chickenpox? Chickenpox and shingles are caused by the same virus. If you've never had chickenpox, you won't get shingles from someone who has it —, but you could get chickenpox.
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Shingles usually occurs from inside your own body when the chickenpox virus reactivates. If you have not had chickenpox, you can't get shingles. If you have not had chickenpox, you can be infected with chickenpox from someone who has shingles. This happens if you come in contact with the fluid from shingles blisters.
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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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If you're pregnant and you already had chickenpox, you and your baby are safe from exposure to anyone with chickenpox or shingles.
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A. No. Even if they don't remember having had chickenpox, they should still get the shingles vaccine—it wouldn't give them chickenpox. There's a new and improved shingles vaccine (Shingrix), which is approved for people ages 50 and over, even for those who received thefirst shingles vaccine (Zostavax).
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You cannot get shingles from someone with chickenpox You cannot get shingles from someone with shingles or chickenpox. But you can get chickenpox from someone with shingles if you have not had chickenpox before.
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You cannot get shingles from someone with shingles or chickenpox. But you can get chickenpox from someone with shingles if you have not had chickenpox before. 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.
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Once you've had chickenpox, it's likely you'll stay immune for life. This means you're unlikely to catch the infection again and won't spread it to others. If people do have chickenpox again, this is usually because their first infection was very mild.
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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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Most people who have had chickenpox will be immune to the disease for the rest of their lives. However, the virus remains inactive in nerve tissue and may reactivate later in life causing shingles. Very rarely, a second case of chickenpox does happen.
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The illness is often more severe in adults compared to children. Most people who have had chickenpox will be immune to the disease for the rest of their lives. However, the virus remains inactive in nerve tissue and may reactivate later in life causing shingles. Very rarely, a second case of chickenpox does happen.
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The blisters that develop as a result of shingles contain virus particles. If you have not had chickenpox before, you can catch it from direct contact with the fluid from the blisters of someone who has shingles, or from something that has the fluid on it, such as bed sheets or a towel.
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Shingles, also known as zoster or herpes zoster, is a painful skin rash caused by the same virus responsible for chicken pox: the varicella zoster virus. Even if you had chicken pox in the past, you can still contract shingles.
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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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You cannot get shingles from someone with chickenpox You cannot get shingles from someone with shingles or chickenpox. But you can get chickenpox from someone with shingles if you have not had chickenpox before. When people get chickenpox, the virus remains in the body.