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Can you get chicken pox as a child and then again as an adult?
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Very Rarely: If you truly had chicken pox as a child, it is very, very unusual to have them again as an adult. Probably possible, but not likely. Shingles does commonly occur as an adult after childhood exposure.
Answered 7/5/2012
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