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Can you get shingles/chicken pox from showering in the same shower as someone who has it?
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Unlikely to happen: Herpes zoster (shingles) is the chicken pox virus, so a person with zoster can touch any normal person (not immunocompromised, not on prednisone, not a baby) who has immunity to the virus from a past vaccination or a past case of chicken pox or zoster, and not give chicken pox to the person he touches. It is very unlikely to catch the virus from a shower stall if showering separately.
Answered 12/1/2012
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Shingles: Chicken pox is airborne so it's unlikely you will get it from the shower. Shingles is a reactivation of chicken pox in your own body so you wouldn't get that from someone else.
Answered 2/20/2016
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