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What is the difference between chickenpox and shingles?
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Location: Chickenpox describes a generalized illness where the virus has circulated thru the body and comes to the skin surface as a later stage. On the skin surface the blisters come up and have living virus in them. Zoster is a reactivation of the virus from its hiding place in a nerve root and its physical location is limited to the skin area supplied by that nerve.The virus is the same.
Answered 10/10/2011
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Shingles comes 2nd: Once you have chicken pox, you can get shingles. Shingles is a recurrence of chicken pox.
Answered 3/9/2013
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