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A member asked:
Do people ever get shingles without ever having chicken pox?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
Not likely: I can think of only one sceinerio that could occur.If your mother had chickenpox during pregnancy, it could have passed to you and remained in hibernation many years and come out as shingles.Most (90%) of adults who think they never had cpx have blood evidence that they did.If you truly never did, you should get the vaccine, it is a nasty disease in adults with occasionally fatal outcome.
Answered 8/19/2013
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