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How long after being infected with the shingles virus does the rash appear?
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Decades : The virus is acquired in childhood as chicken pox and is latent in the body for decades.
Answered 12/11/2014
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Years: You get shingles as an adult from having been infected with the chickenpox virus (varicella zoster virus) as a child.
Answered 12/11/2014
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