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How is it possible to get shingles disease?
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Reactivation: Shingles is a reactivation of the chicken pox virus (varicella-zoster) that lives dormant in nerve cells after the initial chicken pox infection.
Answered 10/3/2016
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Shingles : Shingles is caused by the same virus responsible for chicken pox . The virus remains in a dormant state until a shingles outbreak occurs years later when the immune system is weakened or during stressful times.
Answered 6/2/2013
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