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From where can you get shingles?
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It's all about you!: It's in you as long as you have had chickenpox. One day it wakes up and pain starts with or before the rash.
Answered 1/9/2019
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Yourself : If one has had chickenpox the virus never leaves your body. It stays dormant inside nerve near the spinal cord. A certain trigger wakes them up and they manifest as shingles.
Answered 11/3/2017
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