U.S. kids vaccinated: Chicken pox and shingles are the same zoster virus. If a person has NO good immunity to the zoster virus (never caught chicken pox, is immunosuppressed, never got the vaccine, or got the vaccine but did not make enough antibodies) then she can get a case of chicken pox from the virus in the skin lesions of the shingles. She cannot catch shingles but can later develop it after she gets chicken pox.
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