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What happens if you develop natural immunity to chicken pox can you still catch shingles?
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Confusing question: Natural immunity to chickenpox only occurs when you have had the wild chickenpox. Artificial immunity occurs when you have had the vaccine. In either situation, residual virus (wild or vaccine) hibernates in nerve roots in the individual. If that persons virus re-activates, they get shingles. It can happen.
Answered 7/25/2014
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Confused?: Developing natural immunity to Chicken Pox means you had the infection. And that is exactly who is at risk of eventually developing shingles some day without the shingles vaccine. Getting the chicken pox vaccine, to make artificial immunity, means one is never at risk of Shingles.
Answered 7/25/2014
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